Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] up [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 2 | With Lissa 's money I picked up his tabs . |
| 3 | Returning to the desk she made up her face , powdering carefully about her eyes . |
| 4 | In your mob you make up your own rules , you ca n't deny that ! ’ |
| 5 | The shop was closed as the season was virtually over by now , and , although she did n't know what plan he had up his sleeve , she did n't expect him to do more than breeze in and out . |
| 6 | The COSMOS Consumer Protection Plan covers virtually every aspect of your holiday from the moment you pick up our brochure to the moment you arrive back home ( See pages 12 , 13 ) . |
| 7 | The Cosmos Consumer Protection Plan cover virtually every aspect of your holiday , from the moment you pick up our brochure to the moment you arrive back home , and because we want everyone to know where they stand with us it clearly spells out our obligations to you and your commitments to us when you book a holiday with us from this brochure . |
| 8 | In that moment she made up her mind . |
| 9 | As a person in her own right she takes up her destiny . |
| 10 | Every time he said theme or ultimate theme he held up his finger and waggled it in front of his nose . |
| 11 | On one occasion I screwed up my courage to ask if I could come in at 9 p.m. instead , at which Harold looked puzzled and asked why . |
| 12 | At the station I pick up my other parcel from Left Luggage , and toss it in a holdall . |
| 13 | All that happened out there — love , life , death , murder even — they could wait until the day you hung up your saddle and retired rich , successful , envied . |
| 14 | It was the day she made up her mind that she met Andrew on the Moor . |
| 15 | On one occasion she packed up her car as if about to go away for the weekend , then sauntered up the street , leading the press to believe she had gone to buy a packet of Polos . |
| 16 | Late at night she kept up her journal and wrote her column for J.D. , and on her last visit he had offered her a post on his editorial staff , a full-time one , when she had finished her East End stint , as he called it . |
| 17 | On the eleventh day they gathered up their belongings , packed up their tents and were formed into companies so they could be addressed by the Commanding Officer of the Regiment . |
| 18 | BOBBY COLLINS believes Leeds can win the European Cup — and recalls the night they ran up their best Euro victory . |
| 19 | Last night he stepped up his efforts to broaden his appeal to floating voters by promising that a Labour government would seek consensus and willingly listen to the voice of the people . |
| 20 | So it was naturally with great affection and nostalgia that as an adult I laced up my boots on a damp October morning at the starting point in the station car park at Bridge of Orchy , in preparation to find out what really lurked at the top of Beinn Dorain . |
| 21 | As a cinema manager you thought up your own publicity stunts . |
| 22 | With an economy of movement she collected up her things , some of the remaining rations and a flask of water . |
| 23 | With Rhianon she made up his first fan-club : but even so — as with all the others I talked to who came from Richard 's past — there was no ‘ soft soap ’ : sadness because he was gone — much of that — but no false sentiment . |
| 24 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 25 | When the headmistress , with some guilt , asked her to take over the school 's unpopular Commonwealth Society she rolled up her sleeves and cleaned out the dusty room that had been hung with torn posters depicting ‘ Tea-picking in Ceylon , ‘ Coffee Growing in Kenya , ’ and ‘ Sheep Farming in Australia . ’ |
| 26 | When he was out of sight we picked up our bags and turned into a side street . |
| 27 | These days , nobody cared what high-grade powder he put up his nose , whom he spent the night with . |
| 28 | After about half an hour he picked up his book and came over to me — and I told him off . |
| 29 | In the end she screwed up her courage , took the girl into her office and apologised . |
| 30 | And along with the meal she served up my notice . |