Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've seen my mam take sheets off a bed and tear them up in squares . |
| 2 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 3 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 4 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 5 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 6 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 7 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 8 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
| 9 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 10 | And they bring them up to me |
| 11 | Funded by the European Community , the World Association of Nuclear Operators is co-ordinating an international effort to improve operating procedures at Kozloduy and bring them up to international safety standards . |
| 12 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
| 13 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
| 14 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
| 15 | A cash book should be maintained for each bank account to record every item of income and expenditure , analyse these into appropriate costs and back them up with supporting documentation . |
| 16 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 18 | This woman who , who keeps phoning me up about all this oil pollution on her land . |
| 19 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 20 | You do n't want them up in the top the next group |
| 21 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 22 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 23 | Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper . |
| 24 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 25 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 26 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 27 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 28 | You should , we told you you should of had a little dog like ours and it could of ripped them up for ya . |
| 29 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 30 | Bind me up with granite , |