Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small one er is there another size up or does it get too big then ? |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Why did n't they tie you up or guard you or something ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Each time you wanted to go up or down you had to pull a chain . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ He does n't beat you up or rape you , does he ? ’ asked Tim . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wherever I am , he rings up or follows me or wants to be with me . ’ |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | does it pop itself up or do you have to ? |
| 17 | They do n't want to be praised and stroked for every little thing , but they do want their work to be noticed and acknowledged every so often — and not just when they screwed something up or forgot it . |
| 18 | There 's all sorts of accidents not only having the computer switched off , you might accidentally mess the file up or erase it or whatever , er , you 've still got the original copy on the disk so if you keep saving it every ten minutes or so , then you always lose more than ten minutes ' work . |
| 19 | Now he 'll come up with all sorts of bright ideas like tying me up or pumping me full of tranquillizers for my own safety . |
| 20 | However , both TA and IT are relatively complicated to master and you re recommended to let someone else set them up or run them for you unless you are really eager to advance your computer expertise . |
| 21 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 22 | A popular legend grew up that quoted him as saying he would run over his own grandmother for the president . |
| 23 | I mean , living up that end it 's not so bad is it ? |
| 24 | Any number of factors may turn up that show him to have been mistaken . |
| 25 | But no , if you hang it up that long it 's hard work . |
| 26 | And of course that 's substan makes that compounded up that makes it even more . |
| 27 | It was Hallowe'en coming up that gave her the idea they 'd had lessons at school about ghosts , witches and Hallowe'en . |
| 28 | It 's getting the steam roller up that worries me . |
| 29 | It takes me longer to stitch them up than to knit them and , strange as it may seem , I like turning the heels . |
| 30 | Some rap it up an rap it out |