Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 2 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 3 | You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth . |
| 4 | Press response If there does not seem to be any response to your press release , do not be afraid to follow it up with a telephone call . |
| 5 | That woke you up with a bang . |
| 6 | You 're supposed to curl it up in a , in a erm in a brush when you blow dry it you know . |
| 7 | You 're not going to see this one at your local Bijou nor are you likely to pick it up at the corner video store . |
| 8 | You 're not going to see this one at your local Bijou nor are you likely to pick it up at the corner video store . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 10 | That still messes me up on the guitar . ’ |
| 11 | However , it would be far better to follow it up with a more specific question , ‘ Have you ever worked with that age group before ? ’ |
| 12 | This turned out to be a bonus , because we had to stay overnight in Paris and by good luck , our friends the family Toulagian were in , and happy to put us up at no notice . |
| 13 | Its defenders have certainly been reluctant to give it up in the face of criticisms , for fear that ‘ without it , the macro-economists would be adrift in a sea of unorganized data ’ ( Samuelson and Nordhaus 1985 ) . |
| 14 | I felt that if I could get into a regular habit-forming routine then I would be able to keep it up beyond the 30 days . |
| 15 | He puts a lot of pace on the ball , especially with his forehand , and he 's able to back it up with a volley . |
| 16 | When we examine cost , I remind the House that it is not 12 months since we heard a statement from the Dispatch Box that the Government had found £4.5 billion to prop them up on the poll tax . |
| 17 | Bits of both Open Look and Motif are already in there — and some features will be handled as objects — although Cunningham admits it is unlikely to make it up to the XT intrinsics level , on top of which the various interface look and feels are created . |
| 18 | Knowing all about how to have safer sex is of no use if we feel unable to bring it up with a partner . |
| 19 | so if you doing that , doing that keep you up in the air , right , keep doing that you 'll go that way , when the helicopter 's you want to do that way , so obviously |
| 20 | But at least we have trained the waitress to bring us three cups of coffee each for breakfast , as we need at least that to wake us up for an early morning start ! |
| 21 | Yeah , but this has n't it sho , it , first put it up with no glass , so they put the glass in then it looked like a mirror |
| 22 | Something hot to set you up for the journey . ’ |
| 23 | It is possible now to go through the whole liberal arts course at Stanford University without ever reading Shakespeare ( a DWEM ) and there are many musems in the US now which can not contemplate an exhibition without first measuring it up against the PC yardstick . |
| 24 | She was just using the fact that I was desperate to hold me up for an outrageously high fee . |
| 25 | Prestatyn had to rely on Nick Bradley 31 and skipper Chris Young and Mike Williams 14 each to get them up to an inadequate 84 . |
| 26 | So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim . |
| 27 | If not , you are obliged to top it up to the statutory level . |
| 28 | and that brings you up onto the main Belfast road |
| 29 | That , that brings you up to the |
| 30 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |