Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 2 | Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper . |
| 3 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 4 | Her marrying Dad did n't screw me up like the other two . |
| 5 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 6 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 7 | Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either . |
| 8 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 9 | In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone . |
| 10 | Separate toilets for younger children , staggered playtimes or separate playgrounds for under-fives also mark schools that are really gearing themselves up to the educational needs of these younger pupils . |
| 11 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 12 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 13 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 14 | People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected . |
| 15 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 16 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 17 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 18 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 19 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 20 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 21 | Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind . |
| 22 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 23 | Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob |
| 24 | Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year . |
| 25 | Before buying a tie , hold it up by the skinny end , like a fish . |
| 26 | An architectural Gone With The Wind with Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara hamming it up across the Grand Canal . |
| 27 | Pushing myself up off the wet ground , I brushed the twigs and earth off my trousers while I checked my pockets . |
| 28 | In an attempt to grab the Republicans ' ‘ hot-button ’ issue , the Democrats are now dressing themselves up as the anti-quota party . |
| 29 | So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious . |
| 30 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |