Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicola worked backwards on the bed until she was resting against the wall ; she pulled her knees up and clasped them . |
| 2 | She screwed her eyes up and pretended she saw evening coming on . |
| 3 | It 's clear from my inquiries that the FA originally envisaged Wednesday , September 9 as a triumphant homecoming for Taylor and his assistant Lawrie McMenemy — ‘ Just put your feet up and watch us win . ’ |
| 4 | Sir can you chuck the keys up and unlock it . |
| 5 | Everywhere I go like he follows me know what I mean , I 'm sitting up there at one stage and he , he 'd spend a day sort of curls , curls up and cuddles me . |
| 6 | So he we came along dug the tomato plants up and took them home ? |
| 7 | She held her fingers up and snapped them but her snap was n't a patch on his . |
| 8 | It 's just that it would have been nice to have seen the signs , ’ said Caspar , rolling the maps up and packing them in his saddle bag . |
| 9 | When you consider what makes you laugh , try to distinguish between the humour that opens things up , that enables you to confront painful areas and makes you feel stronger , and the humour that operates at the level of the stock response , works on your fear , keeps your defences up and makes you feel weaker . |
| 10 | erm I 'm not going to keep you very long because I 've nearly finished talking so erm when I 've finished perhaps you would like to bring some of your things up and put them on the table and we can all have a look at them . |
| 11 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
| 12 | I 'm sure they pick things up and throw them at each other . |
| 13 | Mister C hops up and gives me a demo . |
| 14 | ‘ And if you pick one of these creatures up and place it a little distance away on the surface of the water , all its fellows will see is that it vanished , and reappeared elsewhere . |
| 15 | Even though we had n't won at Cov since 1976 , it felt like today we would begin to shut the critics up and show them that we truly are contenders . |
| 16 | She put her arms up and held him close to her . |
| 17 | And in the first day of life they tend to sleep an awful lot , right , so newborns tend to be sleepy and inactive and the things that , that wake babies up and warm them are feeding , crying , limb movement . |
| 18 | But when I spoke to Dr last week I mean he just held his hands up and said i do n't know . |
| 19 | ‘ We have not played well enough in any department and we have got to hold our hands up and say we were not good enough . |
| 20 | John 's already stolen my thunder on the straw poll erm that I was going to do but suffice to say that we normally do that at these types of seminars and there 's always a few people in the room who put their hands up and say they 've got more than ten data sources in their organization . |
| 21 | But a doctor , one of the doctors in the same hospital saying , that the , during the First World War , when they were so desperate , you know , so many casualties , they had to cut short treatment , and they had to bandage men up and leave them bandaged up a long length of , they found it was often better to leave a wound bandaged up in it 's own |
| 22 | Even if you fence it in you still have the additional traffic that would be regenerated in picking the children up and dropping them off . |
| 23 | She just picked boxes up and delivered them . |
| 24 | But they took what few they 'd got left on our regiment to Ireland so nobody else 'd desert , while they rounded the others up and took them to Ireland you see . |
| 25 | When I am satisfied that I have enough information , after maybe seven or eight sittings , I will square the drawings up and transfer them onto board . ’ |
| 26 | He picked garments up and turned them over with his fingertips , gingerly , as if they were disgusting . |
| 27 | I think one of the , the best things a member of the royal family has done , is Prince Phillip and Prince of Wa , and Prince of Wales have actually opened their mouths up and said they 're opposed to wha a lo a lo a lot of what the present government policies are and it 's not , not before time , in my opinion ! |
| 28 | Barry had pulled all the yellow tulips up and blamed him . |
| 29 | so that they get them And I 'll get the children to collect some rocks up and wash them . |
| 30 | Cos I call on them everyday , I can pick the tools up and deliver them the next day . |