Example sentences of "[pron] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He talks himself up too . |
| 32 | The Doctor drew himself up angrily . |
| 33 | Masklin hauled himself up quickly . |
| 34 | Before I could reply he took himself up quickly , as if angry with himself for asking . |
| 35 | And he 's sort of picked himself up now , and he 's more , where I 'm getting involved . |
| 36 | Kirov had opened himself up so that the younger man would trust him enough to confide his deepest thoughts . |
| 37 | He put the handbrake on and waited for her to slip her legs across the centre console , then he lifted himself up so that she could slide under him . |
| 38 | He grasped the narrow sill and hauled himself up so that he hung , partly suspended by his hands , his chin level with the lower sill . |
| 39 | Benjamin drew himself up so his shoulders were no longer stooped . |
| 40 | He blows himself up so the snake ca n't get hold of him . ’ |
| 41 | He had levered himself up so that he was leaning on the boot of the sports car Scamp had tried to demolish with his shotgun . |
| 42 | Mr Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski , the previous state secretary for foreign trade gave himself up early yesterday to the police in West Berlin , where he is now under arrest . |
| 43 | Mr Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski , the previous state secretary for foreign trade gave himself up early yesterday to the police in West Berlin , where he is now under arrest . |
| 44 | No-one ever explained how Kleine , who was too drunk to walk , managed to string himself up early the following morning . |
| 45 | He was afraid that if Tammuz wound himself up further he 'd cause the rotor to crash . |
| 46 | His former boss , Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski , who fled abroad last week after he came under investigation for fraud , gave himself up yesterday in West Berlin , police said . |
| 47 | Then pulled himself up short before he inadvertently mentioned Bliss 's warning that the shipment was destined for an Iranian terrorist faction . |
| 48 | The thought of all the ingenuity and hard Scottish toil spent on the line 's construction being deliberately discarded by a bunch of greedy , sly , ignorant English Conservatives in London that nobody up here voted for makes my rage barely containable . |
| 49 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 50 | ‘ There is nobody up there tonight at least ! ’ |
| 51 | Nobody up there yet ! |
| 52 | Somebody up above as said , I 'll give that person ten minutes sitting in his car . |
| 53 | When Tait miskicked in front of a gaping goal , it seemed as though somebody up there was working for Welling . |
| 54 | The 22-year-old Bath back-row forward 's astonishing winding road to glory has taken more twists than a roller-coaster , the most recent providing ample proof ‘ that somebody up there has decided I am going to make it ’ . |
| 55 | It also seemed as if somebody up there had decided to have a laugh at the expense of an arguably premature rave by yours truly . |
| 56 | We got the message : somebody up there was n't an Esquire reader . |
| 57 | Se I send somebody up there and they cou , you know , put them up as best they could . |
| 58 | Ah we we we know somebody up there . |
| 59 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 60 | Yeah but if you think about it , people laugh when you say oh like I believe in fate , bit more easier to believe than believing in somebody up there like looking at us in n it ? |