Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow .
2 A small one er is there another size up or does it get too big then ?
3 She made no effort to curl up or wash herself or do anything other than gaze quietly ahead .
4 ‘ Appropriates ’ is generally proved by a witness stating that the accused picked the property up or put it in a shopping bag or a pocket .
5 Various things enclosed ; a not very good pic of my lovely curtains ; some photos taken in Hyde Park , London which are n't much good either , so feel free to cut them up or chuck them !
6 TNCs tend to get round this by buying up or establishing their own local suppliers ( see Bennett and Sharp , 1985 ) .
7 Also from Germany is a handy set of eleven compilation discs devoted to instrumentalists , orchestra and chorus , which apart from offering good value and superb sound can be used to set up or check your hi-fi .
8 If you only have one rope , do your second a favour and either double it up or pull it through after doing the pitch and drop it back to your mate to protect the moves down the flake .
9 ‘ Why did n't they tie you up or guard you or something ? ’
10 I never bothered to look it up or ask anybody if that was true , but he 'd say , ‘ I 've got very low blood pressure so it does n't matter how much I drink . ’
11 Any reasonably well-known professional scientist will receive from time to time letters written by bell-meaning people who indicate , usually in rather guarded terms , that they have in their possession the solution to the riddle of the universe and they just need a little help in polishing it up or propagating it .
12 Each time you wanted to go up or down you had to pull a chain .
13 If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’
14 In the event eight did , but , everybody who could n't come phoned up or got somebody to phone
15 My mother was beside herself and after that , although she still almost worshipped her , she was afraid even to hold her up or lift her , so I had all the care of her .
16 By November 1984 the Prime Minister reported that 700 bodies had either been wound up or had their expenditure reduced , giving a total saving of 118m per year ( see Hood , 1988 , p. 89 for further elaboration on alleged reductions ) .
17 Burble , burble , burble — I do miss you , Jeanette , often at the oddest times — like when ‘ preparing ’ the washing up or using your bubble bath .
18 Since we could barely stand up or speak there was little point in dropping in on Ted and Theresia , although perhaps they would n't have noticed much difference in my case , given as they are to ply me with drink .
19 He lived and played and wrote and toured frenetically for the next couple of years , working night and day — with just a little help from Benzedrine , Methedrine , and anything else that would speed him up or slow him down .
20 A catalyst facilitates a chemical process without being used up or changed itself .
21 Did you walk up or did somebody take you up ?
22 ‘ He does n't beat you up or rape you , does he ? ’ asked Tim .
23 Those funds are there to assist students who face particular financial difficulties and who , as a result , may not be able to take up or resume their studies .
24 Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often .
25 Wherever I am , he rings up or follows me or wants to be with me . ’
26 Dressed up or down it fits the fill for every occasion and will be one of the easiest things you have ever made — try it in linen , washed silk or a floral print
27 Erm do you have cases where the where the girls or same faces keep popping up or do you do you feel that once they 've been pulled in they it puts them off ?
28 does it pop itself up or do you have to ?
29 They did not look up or catch his eye , but there was a perceptible tremor along the work benches , a subtle increase in the carefulness and precision of their movements as the boss passed .
30 Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters " Union , regarded the existence of the acts as " a tremendous millstone round the neck of the local artisan , which has depressed and debased him to the earth , every act which he has attempted every measure that he has devised to keep up or raise his wages , he has been told was illegal : the whole force of the civil power and influence of the district has been exerted against him because he was acting illegally " .
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