Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , below the shadow of both the next two properties , we shall , we shall , you know , just have a brick wall , and if they they just shifted the garage to one end and as far as I 'm concerned it 's an excuse for them to put up the power , that is , |
| 2 | However , Melanie has recently been bitten on the arm through diving between them to break up a fight . |
| 3 | Traffic was heavy and this was no day for me to pick up a ticket . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ It was childish of her to rip up the picture , ’ says Nuala O'Connor . |
| 6 | There are no hordes that have rushed past us to take up the torch . ’ |
| 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 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He offered to forgo part of his salary as long as some employment would be found for him to make up the difference . |
| 11 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was n't really listening , just waiting for her to pick up the phone . ’ |
| 14 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I waited for her to bring up the subject of Graham 's murder because I knew she would have been very upset . |
| 17 | The Feldwebel pointed to the entrance to the station and the mousy man signed to me to pick up the case . |
| 18 | This is one of the most providential days of the year when the onus is on you to take up an idea and run with it . |
| 19 | He reached the cocktail cabinet and leaned over it to scoop up a couple of two-hundred-year-old goblets . |
| 20 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 21 | ‘ They are trying to sling mud at me to cover up the defeat by Peru , ’ he said , rising to his own defence and pointing a brave if belated finger back at the SFA . |
| 22 | Soon Alejandro was venting his hangover on all the staff , yelling at them to tidy up the place and all the ponies . |