Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And McCall , the driving force in Rangers ' 2–1 European Cup win at Elland Road , said : ‘ Leeds have great character and ability and I hope they go on to do well this season , but it will be difficult for them to pick themselves up from this . |
| 2 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think there have been any new developments since yesterday morning , but I 'll run through them to keep you up to date . ’ |
| 4 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 5 | Got them wetting themselves up on the clouds , I daresay … |
| 6 | ‘ Wonder how the hell they got anything up from there . ’ |
| 7 | And they bring them up to me |
| 8 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 9 | So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ? |
| 10 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 12 | If you have a little bit , then they make it up wi' Parish Relief . |
| 13 | I mean they pick somebody up at Goldhill Cottages and that 's about all I do n't know . |
| 14 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 15 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 16 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 17 | Half of the wine and they top it up with water . |
| 18 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 19 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 20 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 21 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 22 | They press themselves up against the adventurers . |
| 23 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 24 | See they build her up with this blood and she was alright then , you see . |
| 25 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 26 | They fry can be left with the parents until they attain anything up to one inch in length , but it is often advisable to remove the parents long before this . |
| 27 | They buried her up at St Saviour 's , in the far corner of the graveyard where the ground slopes away from the redstone church . |
| 28 | Mhm so did they they give them up to the folk |
| 29 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 30 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |