Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 2 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 3 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |
| 4 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 5 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 6 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 7 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 8 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 9 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 10 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 11 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 12 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 13 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 14 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 15 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 16 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 17 | The brief church service and the burial at Oak Bay Cemetery were not impressive , and Emily 's three Vancouver friends ate a doleful dinner in the Empress Hotel that evening , although Lawren tried to cheer us up in his own inimitable way , and we were grateful . |
| 18 | I sang songs to myself , made up stories , got hungry , rolled around in the sand a bit , rubbed a little of it into my eyes and generally tried to psyche myself up into something that might look like a terrible state for a wee boy to be in . |
| 19 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 20 | She tried to hold it up against Constance who pulled away and said loudly , ‘ Yellow ! |
| 21 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 22 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 23 | They helped fix us up with clothes , then with a solicitor for an injunction . |
| 24 | At his home his mother earnestly tried to fatten us up for our adventure ahead , as only the Chinese know how . |
| 25 | Yeah , because you tried to beat me up behind Mrs ! |
| 26 | I put weight on my hands and tried to push myself up off the floor . |
| 27 | So , I tried to make it up to her in every way I could — though it was n't easy — she went on hating me for years . ’ |
| 28 | A spokeswoman for French TV station TF1 who screened the show , said last night : ‘ Eric is very close to his grandmother , who helped to bring him up as a child . |
| 29 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 30 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |