Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 2 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 3 | The tanks and troops were still crossing the river as the Officer I had accompanied drew up beside me with the jeep . |
| 4 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 5 | A man caught up with her on the pavement and for a moment she stared at him blankly . |
| 6 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 8 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 9 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 10 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 11 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 12 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 13 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're doing them a favour because legislation will catch up with them in the end . |
| 15 | Eventually , though , it will catch up with you in the form of self-loathing , as the pounds pile themselves on and you possibly curb your social life , and , moreover , endanger your health . |
| 16 | Our main memory is of trying to keep the inside of the windscreen free of ice ( no heater ) while queues of traffic built up beside us on the long haul up Shap Fell . |
| 17 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 18 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
| 19 | Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series . |
| 20 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 21 | A well was sunk in the back garden , and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen . |
| 22 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 23 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
| 24 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 25 | They catch up with you in the end . |
| 26 | I enjoyed meeting up with you at the JNCC presentation on Monday evening and was impressed in particular by Lord Selbourne 's clear determination ( shared by all the country council chairmen ) to make the JNCC both an effective co-ordinating body between the councils and a strategic ‘ think tank ’ on issues where a UK or an international perspective is essential . |
| 27 | cos you get fed up of them in the end |
| 28 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 29 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 30 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |