Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " 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 | I I do n't know dust them up with a a cloth and a bit of Pledge I expect . |
| 3 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 4 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 5 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 6 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Not so for Locke , you will recall that so f the way Locke sets it up is a legitimate civil society is first established by a social contract and that creates a community , a body politic , which has a capacity to act , and I 'll put a little question mark over that shortly , erm and that community then as a separate act sets up a government which , because it has set it up as a trust , erm it can change or dismiss pretty well at will . |
| 9 | In fact it has followed it up with an absolutely excellent study pack which has been very widely used within the church . |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 11 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 12 | Kersey called after him : ‘ Shaw has fixed us up at the hotel on the prom — is that all right ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A spokeswoman for French TV station TF1 who screened the show , said last night : ‘ Eric is very close to his grandmother , who helped to bring him up as a child . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 19 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |
| 20 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 21 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 22 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 23 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 24 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 25 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 26 | They provided my family and I with currency exchange at competitive rates , advice on aeroplane repairs , free landing and hangarage , free overnight accommodation — and even organised on-the-spot Customs clearance when a friend came to pick us up in a twin the following morning . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | John and his friend then began to fight back and were gaining the upper hand when the police intervened slamming them up against a wall with their arms pinned behind their backs . |