Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 2 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 3 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 4 | While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy . |
| 5 | Revenue from normal trading fell , but the club made it up from the transfer market . |
| 6 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 7 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 10 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 11 | Then the force suspending us up among the chandeliers evaporated . |
| 12 | ‘ It was Faye , dear , silly Faye , with her ridiculous attempt to doll you up into the sort of woman she thought I 'd want . |
| 13 | Hilary was eighteen when Meredith picked him up at the BBC Club . ’ |
| 14 | Quick as a flash he was at her side , catching her before she hit the ground , his arm hooking behind her knees to scoop her up into the air . |
| 15 | When the sales er marketing exec goes round to the golf club to sign them up in the contract with the contract we will print one or other or both . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 18 | Alida hauled her up by the arms , plumped up the pillows , and shook them hard , until the dust soared . |
| 19 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 20 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nancy was able to come to Bedford and a kindly Methodist lady put her up for the night . |
| 24 | As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ . |
| 25 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |
| 26 | In the second half , Swindon were again on top whilst Maclaren fired them up with a free kick . |
| 27 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 28 | I said : ‘ You know as I drove along Princes Street to pick you up from the office I had a feeling I left something behind . |
| 29 | Then again the painting illustrates in a very concrete fashion the pull Picasso felt between the desire to give forms an explicit , volumetrical treatment , and the need to flatten them up onto the picture plane ( compare , for example , the almost sculptural treatment of the breasts and the arms with that of the head , which is rendered in terms of two flat planes ) . |
| 30 | A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing . |