Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 2 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 3 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 4 | It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report . |
| 5 | With a final searching look at the haunted image in the mirror she drew herself up with a deep breath and walked down the narrow passage to meet him . |
| 6 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 7 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 8 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 9 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 10 | You all know what Strats sound like and what 5-position selectors do , but to get an overall picture of this guitar I lined it up against a regular office hack ( a Tokai hybrid with an old ‘ 58 Fender neck and Alnico Pro II 's in the middle and bridge positions ) and can report that the SRV came out well . |
| 11 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 12 | Michael Green , its creator , built it up from a small photo-processing company . |
| 13 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 14 | I am always happy to work myself up into a great cultural stew , given half the chance . |
| 15 | Back in Chapter 4 , I mentioned that pull-ups were very useful exercises because they strengthen the muscles needed to pull yourself up over a high wall . |
| 16 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 17 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 18 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 19 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 21 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 22 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 23 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 24 | ‘ Lapping it up like a weak kitten , ’ thought Fergus . |
| 25 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 26 | You could have warmed it up with a hot water bottle or a heat pad do n't leave it there with the baby in it , but you can certainly warm the bed first , you can warm the baby 's clothes , keep them in the airing cupboard , or lots of houses around here have Agas do n't they ? |
| 27 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 28 | In the second half , Swindon were again on top whilst Maclaren fired them up with a free kick . |
| 29 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 30 | And do n't forget the fellow who saved all his apple pips and crunched them up as a special treat ( apple-pip kernels , like those of plum , peach and apricot , contain tiny quantities of cyanide ) : he died . |