Example sentences of "[pron] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was just about to stitch my up again when he saw a movement and pulled out an inch-and-a-half-long botfly larva , at which point the nurse in attendance fainted . ’ |
| 2 | The thing is I I me I 've taken all my up here today . |
| 3 | No , I he took , his up there and I 've got him down there . |
| 4 | Got yours up yet ? |
| 5 | Oh yeah , that 's right you had to hold yours up together as well . |
| 6 | And then you 'll you 'll get more value by selling yours up there , than you would down here . |
| 7 | That event & 's separation in the same year blighted by retirement … but is now divorced & we 've all brushed ourselves down & picked ourselves up again ! ) ) |
| 8 | There 's an eight-tonne on its side — can you get someone up there as soon as possible ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ When I left school I was nowhere , but someone up there put me in the situation I find myself in now . |
| 10 | Someone up there must have wagered a few bob on them for another Grand Slam . |
| 11 | ‘ You found someone up there , ’ she said , seeing his face . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel like a giant 's yo-yo — as if there 's someone up there just dangling me on a string . |
| 13 | It 's nice to think , you know , there 's someone up there , sitting in the cloud , watching over us and providing , as it were . |
| 14 | He said he 's sending someone up there , when they 're gon na provide a series , it 's gon na be too late to make anyway . |
| 15 | Police have now appealed to Hanger to give himself up peacefully but armed police are on standby . |
| 16 | But as his mother observed , he was the same Peter , he 'd pick himself up somehow . |
| 17 | The bird symbolising the yearning for freedom man has , his desire to pull himself up above and beyond the limits and discomforts of his own restricted world . |
| 18 | Jack sat down in the basket chair vacated by Alison , making it creak prodigiously , hauled himself up again , found a hard upright kitchen chair and sat on that . |
| 19 | Then he grabbed the next branch above his head and pulled himself up again . |
| 20 | Steven Clark gave himself up just hours after five-months ' pregnant Kelly Hitchcock died . |
| 21 | He was forced to fly to Colombo last month to rescue a New Zealand tour after a Tamil suicide bomber blew himself up just 50 yards from the Kiwis ' team hotel . |
| 22 | Vincent picked himself up slowly and rubbed his ribs . |
| 23 | He pulled himself up slowly . |
| 24 | Both men are the same strength and weight but it 's the one who 's psyched himself up properly beforehand who 's going to win . |
| 25 | There was no trace of his usual cheekiness , either because he was seriously worried about his son or simply because he had no need to defend himself up here where he was in his element and they were out of theirs . |
| 26 | Jack picked himself up painfully . |
| 27 | He found himself smiling gently as he sat and watched her , and pulled himself up sharply , realizing that the girl was annoyed by what was obviously a familiar reaction . |
| 28 | He paused and drew himself up proudly to his full height again . |
| 29 | Charlie drew himself up proudly . |
| 30 | Coleman felt he was working himself up quite convincingly . |