Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 2 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 3 | With three matches to go , NSW 's , outright victory over SA pushed them up into equal second place with WA , two points behind leaders and defending champions Victory and two points clear of Queensland , who have a game in hand . |
| 4 | Katie cut hers up into five hundred pieces |
| 5 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 6 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 7 | How dared Rune set her up like this ? |
| 8 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 9 | Quigley held me up with one free hand and opened the door of his car with the other . |
| 10 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 11 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 12 | Peter Scudamore 's mount took it up from Jinxy Jack two out and sprinted clear on the flat , landing the odds by five lengths from Gordon Richards ' horse , with Fidway two lengths away in third . |
| 13 | Mr Pinter gave him up to 15 minutes or so , and when he did not arrive , left . |
| 14 | The junior competition looks set for new champion Andrew Martin ( Prescot Eagle-Atlas ) , whose title win shot him up to 17 points . |
| 15 | He might take the odd class in Geography at a pinch , but he had never given the subject any particular prominence in the school , and most boys gave it up after two years . |