Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the colleges he listed invited Katrina up for an interview and she seemed to like it there . |
| 2 | Grandad , who had been reading his paper , said , ‘ Eh , I 'd like to help with the cleaning but you see I promised Angus up at the farm that I 'd help him with the lambs today . ’ |
| 3 | An approaching Ilyushin passenger-jet was told to overshoot as the tower lined Duncan up on the runway . |
| 4 | The 1988 Act allows open enrolment , so that schools are forced to accept children up to the limit of their capacity . |
| 5 | He caught George up at the porter 's lodge and they walked together up the Ropewalk . |
| 6 | It also contains a sample of ‘ Saffil , ’ that near-miraculous aluminium oxide fibre which looks like cotton-wool , withstands heat up to the melting point of steel , strengthens metals , and is used to line furnaces and between the tiles which protect the space shuttles in their searing return to earth — and was , after all , a research-led , rather than a market-led discovery . |
| 7 | Two completely trivial points must be mentioned as they may bring readers up with a start : in the first movement of the Sibelius symphony at 3′17″ ( bar 40 ) , the third trombone plays E sharp instead of E natural , and in the first movement of the Shostakovich ( track 7 , 7′19″ , six bars after fig. 16 ) the bassoon plays a G natural instead of a flat . |
| 8 | I remember thinking that use of rhyming slang was going to help clear matters up in no time . |
| 9 | Robert had made the mistake of looking Hasan up in the work in question , at the end of which he had almost decided to call in an exorcist with some experience in the Islamic field . |
| 10 | He conducted recently in the Netherlands , where the Dutch National Youth Orchestra allows membership up to the age of 25 . |
| 11 | Was it a good decision to airfreight an order because we 'd messed things up on the plant ? ’ |
| 12 | Philip thought of him meeting Lee up in the wood . |
| 13 | He says there ai n't nothing else next and er so er I stood there and I said this , kind of like this I 've got ta do something so er I went er to pick sommat up down the back but before that he said , here you are , he says I put these ready all you got ta do is put the screws in those locks you know , like . |
| 14 | The others , including the new drummer , had come to pick Keith up for a practice while I was there . |
| 15 | Take the track out of the car park and zig zag up to the viewpoint . |
| 16 | The grounds of Midway Manor were transformed for the evening , with a candlelit drive leading guests up to the manor house where hot air balloons offered rides above the parkland . |
| 17 | God as an old man with a beard pulling strings up in the sky is doomed forever to be invisible and impossible . |
| 18 | It was left to Bray to wrap things up with a penalty flick , her eighth league goal of the season , after Dixon 's storming run was impeded . |
| 19 | She 's got frames up in the house that 'll probably , will fit it . |
| 20 | Open enrolment provisions , which remove the limits some LEAs had previously put on schools in their area , demand that all maintained schools accept pupils up to the limit of their physical capacity . |
| 21 | Owen could not tell whether this actually was the demonstration , conveniently moved in view of the circumstances , or whether Osman meant to whip things up to the point when the crowd would storm the barricade . |
| 22 | ‘ Obviously we wo n't be deliberately kicking Gazza up in the air . |
| 23 | When we arrived on the island , my mother and I followed Greta up to the house . |
| 24 | I sensed from her wide , fearful eyes , that she was dreading the prospect of having to ring Moscow and wake Sonia up in the middle of the night , telling her Sergei was dead . |
| 25 | It appears that Geordie , the Newcastle chap who cheered things up during the trip to the beach last week , by being the first to run naked into the sea , was badly wounded when his jeep ran over a mine and the driver was killed . |
| 26 | I ordered Joe up into the tree-house and he sat , staring down at the lens . |
| 27 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on Oct. 29 approved a three-year arrangement authorizing loans up to the equivalent of SDR49,420,000 ( about US$70,000,000 ) under the structural adjustment facility ( SAF ) , in support of Ethiopia 's medium-term economic reform programme . |
| 28 | Well not a lot really , like just getting people up on the bank for the ambulances to pick 'em up from the motorway . |
| 29 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 30 | He tried to toughen Charles up as a child by sending him to Gordonstoun public school in Scotland , where the prince became a target for bullies . |