Example sentences of "[noun sg] up [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gon na say you know my mum put that bloody card up do n't you ? |
| 2 | If I went I 'd go park the car up wear a Chelsea shirt . |
| 3 | You should be aware of the peculiarities of the local weather before you make your mind up to live in a particular place . |
| 4 | I could n't make up my own mind whether to get him to lengthen or shorten and in consequence I did n't make his mind up to do either and we floundered over it untidily , his hooves rapping the wooden frames , my weight too far forward … a mess . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal held that whether the officer had taken possession was a question for the jury , and that the answer depended on whether he had made his mind up to take possession so that they would not be removed , or whether he had an open mind and merely wanted to stop the driver getting away without being questioned . |
| 6 | Yesterday we made our mind up to have that one and we 've set a sign some papers so |
| 7 | I also remember that goal vs Leicester in the 2nd Div … crucial ( all the goals in that match were superb goals … strachs was excellent — as was macca 's and probably made Wilko 's mind up to get him ) |
| 8 | and they live near them and his wife 's , he 's away from home a lot , so his wife 's happy because she 's got Joan for company and gradually she 's getting her old self and she wo n't be coming over today so she 's phoned her granddad up to let him know so he wo n't be worried . |
| 9 | Dommer swung his flamer up to cover her as she twisted her handgun around . |
| 10 | Then he turned around and held the taper up to illuminate the scene . |
| 11 | But inevitably the break up occurs just at the band 's moment of triumph … |
| 12 | The break up opened a wound that would take years to heal . |
| 13 | We 've got nothing to make him a sandwich up have we ? |
| 14 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 15 | The boys from Beruit gear up to go home . |
| 16 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 17 | The flickering patterns of the light made her face seem insubstantial ; like something you might glimpse in a dream but which , when you came closer or held a clear light up to see it better , would fade or change back to its true form . |
| 18 | It 's , it 's , it 's , it 's th th the mix up has come on , in that book it 's |
| 19 | When sticking fabric up apply the paste to the walls and not to the fabric . |
| 20 | It 's just to split the recommendation up to make sure we 've got the authorities we need to do the whole lot I think Chairman . |
| 21 | you know that back door key , I seemed to remember picking a key up thinking it was the garage key |
| 22 | But perhaps the most intriguing reason for the hold up comes from J. W. Carr in New South Wales . |
| 23 | That first row , when we got the committee up to face him , that frightened him , and then it was made quite plain that Therese was here to stay . |
| 24 | Oh I went to the doctors last night cos I had that check up did n't I ? |
| 25 | In Germany population screening for prostate cancer has been a policy since 1978 , and in Belgium an insurance supported annual check up includes a rectal examination . |
| 26 | This check up shows he 's fully fit to carry out his strenuous lifestyle as a hospital porter . |
| 27 | The Kennedy case is one of many which have exposed the new Criminal Justice Act up to ridicule , with motoring offences in particular coming under the spotlight . |
| 28 | A second lorry driver Peter Walling later saw a man naked from the waist up scramble up the river bank but disappear when he saw the lorry . |
| 29 | A fairly young man in Italian leisure wear from the waist down and nothing but a tan from the waist up appeared from a cabin , ready to repel boarders . |
| 30 | ‘ Even if you woke the child up to clean his or her teeth , some sugar is bound to be retained on or between the teeth . ’ |