Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp .
2 I need my to go up in a minute .
3 I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded .
4 I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum .
5 I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool .
6 ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said .
7 Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name .
8 ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it !
9 Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible .
10 Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked .
11 It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak .
12 I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off .
13 Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use .
14 I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly .
15 The first time I came up against a woman comandante …
16 Suddenly someone opened up with a machine gun at us .
17 Twice a week I meet up with a group of other young mothers for a baby afternoon and — ’
18 Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road .
19 I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’
20 " I read up about a lot of them , Kate .
21 It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque .
22 Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial .
23 I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt !
24 Obviously there has to be ‘ give and take ’ on both sides ; for example , I would not expect to be guaranteed a space for the cycle if I turned up without a reservation .
25 I stand up with a sigh , like any husband coming home from the boozer , and I head back to Rachel with whisky on my breath .
26 If , if I walked up to a policeman in the street and gave him a little shove , the chances are he would arrest me , unless it was done in a totally friendly way .
27 If I get up out a chair it 's murder .
28 I get up after a bit and stick the stuff back in my pockets and start walking the way I came in .
29 ‘ Nothing happened and as I like to race every weekend I signed up for a meeting in France on June 13 ’ , he said .
30 If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better .
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