Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up " in BNC.

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1 How long would it take me to drive up there ? ’
2 Cos I need one of them to go up .
3 He did n't need me building up yet more false hopes which did nothing except try his patience .
4 In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture .
5 ‘ I would n't like one of them to swim up my arse ’ — Paul Merton , one-time plaything of the Bishop Of Galway , stars in Have I Got News For You .
6 that 'll save me phoning up to say can I have a script please
7 I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind .
8 Now if you like you can sign all it says is erm it just it 's just telling you what it is and saying that you do n't mind them typing up the words form this .
9 Ethel found me doubled up .
10 Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ .
11 But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end .
12 ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you .
13 It will be mainly concerned with pensions , education and health care , because there are well-developed private and occupational services in all three areas and because state services in them make up about three-quarters of state welfare spending .
14 ‘ D' you want me to go up and tell him ? ’
15 ‘ Then , about a month later , he asked me to go up to Camp David while he and his family were using the facility .
16 Just before Christmas , Pogo invited Aubrey and me to go up to Melton Mowbray to hunt .
17 Do you want me to go up and get you some ?
18 Want me to go up there ?
19 Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this .
20 It also helps them build up market research techniques — required in the technology section of the National Curriculum — as well as developing planning , advertising , promotion and interviewing skills .
21 Your midwife and doctor , though , see many pregnant women , so they need to use all their skills to help them build up a picture of your individual , unique pregnancy .
22 And also why you 've got to talk to people , you know get your problems out in the open rather than let them build up and all of a sudden just say right , that 's it , out the gates , or down tools .
23 in a trot but er I might just have this and none of them would win , I 've only , I would only praise them guessed up or that way or
24 Laura , you let me throw up all over the alley , all over Bill 's cab .
25 The thought of her tits pressed up against my face nearly made me throw up , and I had-to disappoint him .
26 Corris says that once the ISDN lines are there , the company will be able to use them to nail up permanent and semi-permanent virtual circuits , potential competition for the company 's leased line business .
27 One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time .
28 ‘ Some of them got up my nose a bit … right sods the lot of them … there 's a collection of them , the Technical Drawing staff .
29 When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise .
30 If you'se happen to be comin' here to Dublin at some time or other in the future — which praise the Lord you will be , for t is God 's own city — and you happen to be driving down O'Connell Street and you see me standin' here like dis , with me arms up ; then whether I 'm here or not , you stop . ’
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