Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not forget that you live alone and there may not be anyone there to pick you up or ring for the doctor if you break a leg or a hip . |
| 2 | Finally , it produces thousands of young , which transfer into the next fly that picks them up while feeding on the host . |
| 3 | No they were oh no we brought them up and put on the shelf . |
| 4 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 5 | Molly pointed to the bright bunch on the scrubbed table and Giovanna gathered them up and strode to a hook on the dresser where they dangled with all their labels . |
| 6 | I pick them up and look at the envelopes . |
| 7 | He screwed them up and sank to the floor . |
| 8 | Oh , the neighbour rang me up and said by the way she 'll be a bit late |
| 9 | Harvey helped me up and pointed to a concrete runway just below us . |
| 10 | I picked him up and stumbled over the rough ground to the back gate of our garden , which was only about twenty yards away . |
| 11 | Shoot the bird to wake it up and switch to the straight-up bullets . |
| 12 | Reluctantly she picked it up and listened for a moment . |
| 13 | This one could , it could just about reach it over its paw and flicked it up and knocked on the door |
| 14 | So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field . |
| 15 | He picked it up and went to the door of the tent . |
| 16 | ‘ I hastily fitted it up and went through the pretence because I did n't want him knowing where I really live . ’ |
| 17 | Someone had left a copy of the evening paper beside him , and he picked it up and glanced at the headline . |
| 18 | He picked it up and turned to the address section at the back . |
| 19 | He took it up and flew to a stance on one of the wooden buildings round the Park . |
| 20 | Mrs Frizzell snatched up her property , tried wildly to wrap the books in the remains of the paper bag , dropped one of them , picked it up and fled to the cloak-room at the back of the hall , followed by the titters and sniggers of not a few ladies who , knowing the reason for her purchase of the books , could well have rescued her from her predicament , but saw no reason to do so . |
| 21 | Julia Verity was looking to start a business by buying a house in Henley , doing it up and selling at a profit . |