Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 2 | While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy . |
| 3 | When the balance is correct then you just sit and ride forward with your legs closed gently round the horse riding him up to a soft contact on the reins . |
| 4 | The superintendent eased herself up with a sigh . |
| 5 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 6 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 7 | The next morning , Ian woke her up with a cup of tea , said he was sorry about last night , he 'd had a bit too much to drink . |
| 8 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 9 | A court 's been hearing how a four year old girl was found battered and half-starved after her parents locked her up in a bedroom for months on end . |
| 10 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 11 | As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ . |
| 12 | In the second half , Swindon were again on top whilst Maclaren fired them up with a free kick . |
| 13 | A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing . |
| 14 | But Magilton wrapped it up with a fierce free-kick . |
| 15 | Finally , my old friend Alistair Sampson set me up with a cheerful office over his shop in the Brompton Road , where I am gathering stock and beginning life again . |
| 16 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 17 | It takes a Wittgenstein to pull us up with a jolt , by saying that this is like translating a chair — not the word ‘ chair ’ , but a chair — into French . |
| 18 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 19 | Be prepared to centre yourself in revery , to give yourself up to your memories just as your sleeping self gives itself up to a dream . |
| 20 | Not directly but you can make one in that how that once everybody gets , once you have the resources to raise everybody up to a certain sort of acceptable standard of living , then you can redistribute those resources and you are , you are , y you 'll be able to eliminate poverty |
| 21 | Having fallen in love with the theatre in the Free German Youth , a left-wing group dedicated to rebuilding Germany for socialism , Ruth called Bloomsbury House to say ‘ she was very interested in dramatic work and hopes one day to take it up as a career ’ . |
| 22 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 23 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 24 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 25 | " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin . |
| 26 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 27 | ‘ Was n't that where some bakery foreman dressed himself up in a turban , said he was an Eastern potentate , and persuaded half a dozen women to move in with him as his harem ? |
| 28 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 29 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 30 | Crilly fixes us up with a brown powdered lump upon the foil . |