Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 2 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 3 | While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ . |
| 10 | In the second half , Swindon were again on top whilst Maclaren fired them up with a free kick . |
| 11 | A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing . |
| 12 | But Magilton wrapped it up with a fierce free-kick . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lee Sharpe 's fourth goal in three games opened the way after seven minutes , Cantona rapped in a 45th minute penalty and Steve Bruce wrapped it up with an 88th minute header . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 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 | But he 's agreed to let Old Red fix him up with an appointment to see Mr Remington-Hart , which is sensible , as nothing sounds so truthful as the truth . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 22 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 23 | " 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 . |
| 24 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 27 | Crilly fixes us up with a brown powdered lump upon the foil . |
| 28 | Crilly sets me up with a tube and foil . |
| 29 | There is no silver foil , so Crilly sets us up with an empty chocolate wrapping from his pocket . |
| 30 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |