Example sentences of "[pron] up [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stiffened as he recognized a man move upstairs with a distinctive , boneless saunter : he had better send someone up to check the backgammon room . |
| 2 | She 's going to ring someone up to find out more about it . ’ |
| 3 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 4 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 5 | Gazzer hauled himself up to sit on top of the pill-box . |
| 6 | At last he relaxed his grip on her back and pulled himself up to sit straight in the purgatorial chair . |
| 7 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 8 | He spent weeks nerving himself up to get a big whale picture , or maybe a dolphin . |
| 9 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 10 | He gave a short , humourless laugh , and levered himself up to investigate the hamper . |
| 11 | She drew away from him , shivering as she left the warm circle cast by his body , and heard him sigh as he raised himself up to stare down at her . |
| 12 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 13 | Er just make it available , if somebody asks for it , they 'll go and drag somebody up to have a look at you , and they will keep er er they 've made it so they keep an independent arm , but it 's not the major part of their business . |
| 14 | It would take a lot of pressure off you , and free you up to do more important things . ’ |
| 15 | She 'd say , that I 've set you up to say it . |
| 16 | We 'll even provide the application forms , the brochures , everything to back you up to go and do it . |
| 17 | It may cheer you up to learn that the weather forecast is promising . |
| 18 | Dr Colin Patten , general manager of the Down-Lisburn Unit , said the hospital had geared itself up to deal with more patients . |
| 19 | Dr Colin Patten , general manager of the Down-Lisburn Unit , said the hospital had geared itself up to deal with more patients . |
| 20 | At its annual conference in 1978 , as the Party girded itself up to meet the forthcoming General Election , there was a full-throated debate on the imminent threat to ‘ law and order ’ . |
| 21 | and quite honestly , I think they not only do they not bring them up to do , I mean useful like that , but I thought Ken 's his family never showed any affection any warmth , any caring , any love , and I would do anything for anyone if they just say thank you , but with Ken |
| 22 | I was gon na add them up to see how |
| 23 | I would n't keep lifting them up to see how they were doing , and I 'd be pretty hesitant about pruning them too . |
| 24 | Solve the clues in both circles and match them up to form seven breeds of dog |
| 25 | And what I mean by help out is that one of the documents that we leave er when we sign them up to take the product is a list that so that looks something like this . |
| 26 | All these people needed a boot up the backside at regular intervals to keep them up to scratch . |
| 27 | Much work was needed to bring them up to scratch and the small band worked hard to ready everything for an opening to the public in June . |
| 28 | Once SSI and regional health authority monitoring has identified those authorities which were to slow to progress , the pressure was on to bring them up to scratch . |
| 29 | and they 've got to keep them up to scratch |
| 30 | And the worst branches have been given the , the , the stiffer targets to get them up to scratch . |