Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] up [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because I 'm b aadd , ’ he clowns , but them holds up his shaking hand , spreads his fingers and says : ‘ It 's because of this . |
| 2 | What we see here is some of the work which backs up her important argument ( published elsewhere ) that the popular and fragmented nature of postmodern culture yields itself to a more positive interpretation than most of the pessimistic ( and male ) theorists of postmodernism would have us believe . |
| 3 | LIFESPAN takes the form of a set of communicating processes — in particular each online user has a personal copy of the user interface process which sets up its own communication with the main LIFESPAN process . |
| 4 | Sitting in the living room of her Gothic house in Highgate , North London , she holds up her 1991 diary and points to the entry for May 6 . |
| 5 | She takes up her new duties on May 4 . |
| 6 | DISCOVERING plant names is a bonus for Julie Weedon when she opens up her one-acre riverside garden in Goring , Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | Acting upon information received while sleeping , she draws up her invincible battle plans , foils the conspiracies of assassins , learns of the infidelities and corruptions for which she blackmails both her loyalists ( to ensure their support ) and her opponents ( to ensure theirs ) . |
| 8 | There she sets up her own fashion business , ‘ Finn 's Business ’ , and plans a show in the Europa Hotel to launch her new collection . |
| 9 | His first book appeared in New York in 1920 , The Story of Doctor Dolittle , an account of the gently eccentric John Dolittle who gives up his medical practice in order to devote himself to treating animals , learning all their various languages with the help of Polynesia , his sage and authoritative parrot . |
| 10 | Sydney N241 riding the waves as she runs up her outer engines . |
| 11 | But the Haig Avenue boss is refusing to take anything for granted as he lines up his first game as a manager in the first round proper . |
| 12 | When God forgives us he tears up our unfavourable information folder . |
| 13 | It shows up your receding hairline . ’ |
| 14 | On the one hand we have Prince Charles and Lady Di encouraging us to do voluntary work , telling us how noble it is and on the other hand we are told it might actually go against us because it takes up our valuable time when we should be looking for work . |
| 15 | He takes up his new post on Monday 24th May . |
| 16 | Murray , who will be closing his own commercial operations when he takes up his new appointment at the beginning of July , faces the daunting challenge of restoring the Fruitmarket 's critical fortunes . |
| 17 | He picks up her unstated question . |
| 18 | He picks up his mobile phone , dials his stockbroker in Tokyo . |
| 19 | He picks up his empty beer glass and looks at the drops moving on the bottom . |
| 20 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 21 | Chops the dwarf takes lodgings here when he ‘ goes into society ’ , CS 11 : so does Montague Tigg when he sets up his fraudulent insurance company , MC 27 ; Twemlow , seated in the window of his club , is ‘ respectfully contemplated by Pall Mall ’ , OMF ii 3 . |
| 22 | After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide . |
| 23 | ‘ It brightens up their dreary journeys . |
| 24 | He makes up his own mind , and he is his own man . |