Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose I bring it up on a tray in about half an hour . |
| 2 | He goes I pick it up in a bag and chuck it out the window ! |
| 3 | You all know what Strats sound like and what 5-position selectors do , but to get an overall picture of this guitar I lined it up against a regular office hack ( a Tokai hybrid with an old ‘ 58 Fender neck and Alnico Pro II 's in the middle and bridge positions ) and can report that the SRV came out well . |
| 4 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 5 | I sliced it up with a radiologist friend . |
| 6 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 7 | Someone rang me up on a phone-in programme , and he said ‘ I read your book , I think it 's absolutely disgusting . ’ |
| 8 | Then I rang her up with a real ‘ he said , I said ’ story , an embroilment with a friend which had worried me . |
| 9 | I rolled it up into a ball and pushed the shawl and lipstick inside the bundle , then I went to put it on Sally 's step . |
| 10 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 11 | That was when I wound it up on a carriageway . |
| 12 | " No , we 're busy , I 'll get someone to take you up in a minute . " |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago . |
| 14 | I picked it up from a golfing friend of mine for £25 back in the early Sixties . |
| 15 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 16 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 17 | I have n't really asked you very many questions so I 'll , I 'll ask you a question which sets us up for a programme we might do in the next series , having discussed the wedding , next the honeymoon ! |
| 18 | she coul , I mean she just looked like a Michelin man , as though somebody pumped her up with a |
| 19 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 20 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 21 | ‘ You did n't know he was a drunken sot who beat her up on a Saturday night , did you ? ’ |
| 22 | And you think , Oh what does this mean ? and you look it up in a dictionary wicked and you think , Oh |
| 23 | After that , she showed him up into a chamber at the top of the house . |
| 24 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |
| 25 | And it just you curled it up with a plough you see ? |
| 26 | She took me up to an apartment and started giving me a blow-job . |
| 27 | His uncle John , 72 , who brought him up as a son and taught him to play the guitar , has died of lung cancer . |
| 28 | She puts it up in a bun and things like that . |
| 29 | Then you propped it up on a twig , attached to a piece of string that you pulled when the bird walked into the trap . |
| 30 | Then the Dawn Maiden gave him one of the Sun 's burning rays ; she wound it up like a ribbon and put it in a box which she hung round his neck . |