Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | about bringing it up in the next erm meeting . |
| 2 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 3 | Yes , I mean I do n't think there 's a problem about opening it up to them except their meetings traditionally are in the early morning |
| 4 | Then there was the ship 's agent who made a run for it in his car , guessing we would search his house after picking him up with some uncustomed goods . |
| 5 | Nottingham Crown Court has been hearing allegations that a taxi driver raped a lesbian passenger after picking her up from a nightclub . |
| 6 | Short-term memory is the phenomenon by which we can remember a telephone number long enough after looking it up to be able to dial it . |
| 7 | His cap 's on the floor in front of him and I think about picking it up for him , cos maybe if he 's blind he do n't know he 's dropped it . |
| 8 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
| 9 | You should , we told you you should of had a little dog like ours and it could of ripped them up for ya . |
| 10 | Your mother , abandoned by your unknown father , had the job of bringing you up on her own . |
| 11 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 12 | Such was the improvement in turbo cars in such a short space of time that they were soon capable of producing anything up to 1300 b.h.p . |
| 13 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 14 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 15 | Cycle parking is actually I wish they 'd actually pay a bit more places to actually put your bike and you did n't have to sort of tie it up to some lamppost or something |
| 16 | If they thought it was that bad they would of picked it up on the M O T would n't they ? |
| 17 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 18 | This deed somehow necessitated a second manoeuvre , that of picking myself up off the floor . |
| 19 | This is the strategy employed by strangers who are fearful of the cat 's claws and have to find some way of picking it up without being attacked . |
| 20 | No amount of dressing it up in fancy language or elegant commentating will alter that . |
| 21 | I took the precaution of looking it up in case — ’ |
| 22 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 23 | ENGLAND 'S players will be denied the chance of pumping themselves up by singing the national anthem on the pitch before Saturday 's Test against South Africa at Twickenham . |
| 24 | Of course it is easy to look back now and say , well , would anyone have noticed if I had left my shoes lying around the changing room instead of buckling them up inside my satchel when I changed into my gym kit for classes with the Butcher ? |
| 25 | I was due to learn the trade from start to finish with the with the idea of getting myself up to getting on the road . |
| 26 | I pulled the short straw and could not drink as I had the job of getting everyone up in the morning and doing the first two hours driving . |
| 27 | There was also a Corporal of the week — Vigno — and his duties included the more mundane tasks of getting us up in the mornings and making sure that the rooms were kept clean . |
| 28 | But it was certainly the Romans who first thought of splitting it up into units of measurement . |
| 29 | Red , orange , green — they sort of fill me up with colours . |
| 30 | There 's no danger of mixing you up with the mystery man from Pepe 's . ’ |