Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 2 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |
| 3 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 4 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 5 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 6 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 7 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 8 | On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA . |
| 9 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 10 | The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century . |
| 11 | The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards . |
| 12 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 13 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 14 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 17 | My route takes me up into the Chiltern foothills , and a labyrinth of green lanes . |
| 18 | Some sites can go and order everything up to a thousand pounds . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope to meet with the CAA in the next 10 days and we might be able to tie everything up within a few weeks , ’ he said . |
| 20 | What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ? |
| 21 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 22 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 23 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 24 | Erm can you push him up on the standard bearings ? |
| 25 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 26 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 27 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
| 28 | Where others might see a more complex situation with a conceptual continuum between starvation , hunger , destitution , poverty ( want ) , and inequality , Moore abolishes poverty by dividing it up between the two extremes of the continuum , also at the same time neatly side-stepping discussion of the visible increase in begging , destitution , and homelessness in major British cities . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I am still very shaken and will be taking it up with the American authorities . ’ |