Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I cried when Penny went I really did , I said you with a temper and that last day you know , we all got a bucket filled it up with ash trays , dog ends , bits of paper , oh I do n't know what was in it |
| 2 | And teenage boys spend an hour sprucing themselves up in front of the mirror before hunting for a date , say market analysts Mintel . |
| 3 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 4 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 5 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 6 | Revenue from normal trading fell , but the club made it up from the transfer market . |
| 7 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 8 | Rufus tries to arrange a car to pick them up in Bermondsey but he 's having no luck . |
| 9 | Then Kurt has to shell out a considerable amount of money , maybe $25,000 , for the first class plane seats so that Courtney can fly home lying down and a specially appointed ambulance to pick her up at LA airport . |
| 10 | IN A desperate attempt to cheer ourselves up at one particularly gloomy moment last week , my Somerset neighbour William Rees-Mogg and I were trying to construct the scenario of what might happen if Labour scraped into power . |
| 11 | When the balance is correct then you just sit and ride forward with your legs closed gently round the horse riding him up to a soft contact on the reins . |
| 12 | Passing one by one in front of a counter , a Corporal sized us up for height and girth before dumping a pile of cast-off clothes in front of each one of us . |
| 13 | The superintendent eased herself up with a sigh . |
| 14 | A car picks them up from wherever they 're staying and there 's usually a phone , so they can ring us up if they get stuck in traffic jams , or if there is a last-minute change of plan . |
| 15 | Then the force suspending us up among the chandeliers evaporated . |
| 16 | ‘ It was Faye , dear , silly Faye , with her ridiculous attempt to doll you up into the sort of woman she thought I 'd want . |
| 17 | For just £5 the Japan Pass discount card saves you up to £5 off each of 125 Japan Festival events nationwide . |
| 18 | Next morning , a chauffeur-driven limousine picked them up after breakfast . |
| 19 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 20 | When the sales er marketing exec goes round to the golf club to sign them up in the contract with the contract we will print one or other or both . |
| 21 | We got a same day driver picking me up at five fo , five thirty outside the hotel . |
| 22 | Then it 's very hard for the audience or people reading the play to pick anything up from it because it 's all mixed up and it 's just an amalgam of |
| 23 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 24 | I span my Phazer round , the wave lifted me up towards God , and I rose to my feet . |
| 25 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 26 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 27 | Eventually The Fat Controller pulled me up in front of a viciously scalped hedge of box . |
| 28 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 29 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 30 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |