Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 2 | He would help fructify their holdings , bring them up in the world where they should be . |
| 3 | Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ( Eph. 6:1–4 ) . |
| 4 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
| 5 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 6 | You do n't want them up in the top the next group |
| 7 | Pick me up on the way . |
| 8 | They 're erm , I erm , said goodbye come and pick me up by the school . |
| 9 | They 've got red ones , blue ones , pick them up off the ground when they 're finished with them . |
| 10 | I am totally convinced that the people in Holyhead want you to put things on , pick them up at the door , drop them off , teach them how to do it er and drop them back again . |
| 11 | But because there 's a demand for it , the buses run to the school and pick them up at the school . |
| 12 | Well a cos then you can pick them up altogether if , are you with me , if you 're doing the rounds for your friends cos some of them 'll be on there and some 'll be Pick them up from the front , it 's just that some of the stuff will be at the front and some of it wo n't . |
| 13 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
| 14 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 15 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 16 | You want them up at the top of the sheet , where they 're going to be seen first ( they look that good ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Then he can tie them up with the firm . |
| 18 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |
| 19 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 20 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 21 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 22 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
| 23 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 24 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
| 25 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 26 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 27 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 28 | Those sausages were a credit to Mother because she knew just the seasoning they required , and we would hang them up in the kitchen for people to eat as they pleased . |
| 29 | Before fifteen days are over , if it please God , those tambours shall be laid before you , and shall be sounded for your pleasure , and then they shall be given to the Bishop Don Hieronymo , that he may hang them up in the Church of St. Mary , Mother of God . |
| 30 | So that covers you up till the Monday |