Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken one hand from the wheel and held it up in protest . |
| 2 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The unarmed man then produced a buff-coloured plastic ID card and held it up in front of Vasili . |
| 5 | Tie a cord to each bottom ring and thread it up through the rings on each tape . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a kind of loop and roll that dodged the pursuing aircraft and brought you up behind it . |
| 8 | If she let it , the food would jump into her mouth and swell her up to grossness . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 10 | Alternatively , use standard furnishing fabric and match it up to other furnishings in the room . |
| 11 | THE EBDG group 's chairman , Paul Bennetts , has welcomed the Commons vote and followed it up with a plea to quickly rejoin the ERM . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Just look at that ( stabbing a piece and holding it up in mid-air ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He winced as she dabbed disinfectant on the cut and covered it up for him . |
| 17 | Jack looped an arm round her shoulders and tugged her up against his side . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Thus the liner is effectively sealed between three rows of bricks and brings it up above water level , preventing seepage . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The reason for storing data and keeping it up to date is to provide information to managers for decisions . |
| 23 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 24 | She took the paper napkin from her lap and crunched it up into a tight ball , dropping it on to her plate . |
| 25 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 26 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 27 | We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation . |
| 28 | Let the wind do the work and pull you up on the board . |
| 29 | I could have done with a little more natural variation in the sound , but seeing that all Kirk is probably going to do with it is leave it on the neck pickup , knock all the middle off at the amp and turn it up to an excruciating volume , it does n't have to be the most variable guitar in the world . |
| 30 | As he ate , he opened and closed drawers , he examined papers and objects on his desk : ‘ I 'll let you loose in the west gallery and catch you up at the door to the stock-room . |