Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Melanie has recently been bitten on the arm through diving between them to break up a fight . |
| 2 | Traffic was heavy and this was no day for me to pick up a ticket . |
| 3 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 4 | He was soon joined by his brother and the two of them set up a practice in the Army and Navy Mansions on Victoria Street . |
| 5 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 6 | The subject had seemed to be taboo ; and he himself had in a way pressed her down into his mind because thoughts of her conjured up a feeling tinged with regret and shame , centred round a scene in the bedroom and the rage of his mother . |
| 7 | You were so successful at it that in the end you could vanish without leaving a soul behind sufficiently concerned about you to kick up a fuss — only a solicitor worried about the legal hang-ups , and especially the money ! |
| 8 | It was important for him to build up a body of allies to ensure his succession on his father 's death , but he overreached himself , was regarded as a rebel and was killed , after being defeated in battle by Chlothar . |
| 9 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 10 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 11 | He reached the cocktail cabinet and leaned over it to scoop up a couple of two-hundred-year-old goblets . |