Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 2 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 3 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Kersey called after him : ‘ Shaw has fixed us up at the hotel on the prom — is that all right ? ’ |
| 5 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
| 6 | But you have no faith in the power of the economy and want to prop it up with the crutches of the rotten police regime . |
| 7 | Dear Julie gets drunk and for some bizarre reason suddenly starts feeling you up under the table while we 're nibbling our cheese and biscuits , and making pathetic double-entendres , and attacks you outside the bathroom ; totally unprovoked , of course , and it 's all just the drink talking . |
| 8 | There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard . |
| 9 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 10 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |
| 11 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 12 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 13 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 14 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 15 | But he could remember the sound of her voice on the phone that morning , when he 'd called her up from the School , too well . |
| 16 | Sometimes , he would add lines like : ‘ You 've got to pick them up from the carpet , or they 'll tread in . |
| 17 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 18 | cos I think we 're going to lock her up during the day |
| 19 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 20 | It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway . |
| 21 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 22 | They were all built round and round and up until they came to what they called the the e the part of the stack where they begin to make it up to the top , you see ? |
| 23 | I think he 's at the bottom of a bog with a hole in his head and they 're waiting to scoop her up at the right moment . |
| 24 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
| 25 | Sam had volunteered to pick me up at the hospital . |
| 26 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 27 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 28 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 29 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
| 30 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |