Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 2 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 3 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 4 | ‘ My grandmother says when they 're curled up in a circle with their tails in their mouths , that 's a symbol of eternity , ’ said Emily . |
| 5 | He nearly caught me out with his C. S. Lewis , but I had him sewn up like a kipper with my Hermann Hesse . |
| 6 | ‘ Good day to thee , sire , ’ Blind Hugh began , and found himself looking up into a face with four eyes in it . |
| 7 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 8 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 9 | It can not be made up of a wave with a unique value for its wavelength since such a wave stretches on for ever . |
| 10 | Crilly has tidied the flat , and my bed is made up for a queen with extra duvets and fluffy pillows . |
| 11 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him four hours after drinking with him . |
| 12 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him , four hours after drinking with him . ’ |
| 13 | The house is cool inside , the hall wide , with two pillars and a staircase leading up to a landing with a high round window . |
| 14 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |
| 15 | She got up and walked around nervously , fetching up at a cabinet with a heavy silver box on top . |
| 16 | Got up like a tart with her new frocks and her jewellery and all that muck on her face , and not a bleeding thing to do all day long but watch that colour telly and ring up her pals . |
| 17 | Nathan is propped up against a rucsac with a cup , plate and two glazed eyes . |
| 18 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
| 19 | " Locked up in a house with people I do n't even like . " |
| 20 | We all have the capacity to feel and how much more would an unborn child feel in its internal world , within its mother 's body ? just consider how you would feel if you were locked up in a room with someone in a state of fear , anxiety , anger or grief for nine months ! |
| 21 | ‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’ |
| 22 | She has n't got you locked up in a room with a naked light bulb . |
| 23 | As with the arrangements for exhibitions , it is recommended that firstly the agreement of the responsibly body is sought , followed up by a discussion with the headmaster and janitor/caretaker about the specific needs for the meeting . |
| 24 | To clear this last hurdle I was forced to queue up outside a shed with a number of soldiers . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 26 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |
| 27 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 28 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 29 | She seemed harassed and shop-worn , her greying hair tied up in a bun with a twisted elastic band . |
| 30 | The alarm was raised when she failed to turn up for a meeting with students . |