Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 2 | He had taken one hand from the wheel and held it up in protest . |
| 3 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 4 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 5 | The unarmed man then produced a buff-coloured plastic ID card and held it up in front of Vasili . |
| 6 | Tie a cord to each bottom ring and thread it up through the rings on each tape . |
| 7 | Claudia closed her eyes and gave herself up to sheer sensation . |
| 8 | Erm well perhaps before I answer that question Mr Chairman , I could just briefly skim across the programme and bring you up to date as to where we are and then we 'll go directly on to that point . |
| 9 | It was a kind of loop and roll that dodged the pursuing aircraft and brought you up behind it . |
| 10 | Her hands stole up his chest , then to his shoulders , and finally she clasped them behind his neck and gave herself up to the pleasure of the kiss . |
| 11 | If she let it , the food would jump into her mouth and swell her up to grossness . |
| 12 | A correspondent for Cornhill Magazine , who claimed that in order to gain an inside understanding of ‘ The Science of Garotting ’ he had visited an experienced convict in his cell and offered himself up as a guinea-pig victim , described the main elements of this ‘ most inclement ruffianism that ever disgraced a nineteenth century ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 14 | Alternatively , use standard furnishing fabric and match it up to other furnishings in the room . |
| 15 | THE EBDG group 's chairman , Paul Bennetts , has welcomed the Commons vote and followed it up with a plea to quickly rejoin the ERM . |
| 16 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 17 | Just look at that ( stabbing a piece and holding it up in mid-air ) . |
| 18 | In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital . |
| 19 | She brushed past Penry , eluding the hand he put out to detain her as she ran outside to the car , deaf to his entreaties as she jumped in the car and started it up with a violent rev of the engine . |
| 20 | He winced as she dabbed disinfectant on the cut and covered it up for him . |
| 21 | Jack looped an arm round her shoulders and tugged her up against his side . |
| 22 | ‘ We intend to keep it in its present immaculate condition and to taxi her up to take-off speeds at regular intervals to keep the engines and flight systems in perfect working order . |
| 23 | Zoe will continue to monitor the progress of both our psoriasis sufferers over the coming months and keep us up to date with how they 're doing . |
| 24 | Thus the liner is effectively sealed between three rows of bricks and brings it up above water level , preventing seepage . |
| 25 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 26 | With a muffled groan she rolled on to her side and screwed herself up into a tight ball , alternately hot and shivery with emotion . |
| 27 | The reason for storing data and keeping it up to date is to provide information to managers for decisions . |
| 28 | Often clients think they know best and have the trade publication editor to lunch or ring him up with titbits and gossip . |
| 29 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 30 | She took the paper napkin from her lap and crunched it up into a tight ball , dropping it on to her plate . |