Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 2 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 3 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 4 | Instead of reassuring Stephen , now working himself up to a fever pitch of nervous excitement with the launch date in view , Michael 's superior manner had begun to grate . |
| 5 | Her husband appeared to have something wrong with him — he was shaking as if shell-shocked and propped himself up with a walking stick in his right hand . |
| 6 | The second time he came round , he suddenly pulled himself up into a sitting position . |
| 7 | A self-confessed con-artist and charlatan , he used his ‘ nimbleness of wit ’ to set himself up as a quack doctor and an exorcist . |
| 8 | For anything up to £500 , this place can fix you up with a fashion accessory in a class of its own . |
| 9 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 10 | Through it all , remarks one of its editors , Alexander Whyte , ‘ like volcanic rock , thrusting itself up into a harvest field , so does Andrewes ' acute and abiding remorse for sin pierce up through his finest and fullest psalms of Thanksgiving ’ . |
| 11 | And , to give the table setting a special festive feel , Kate has attached wide red satin ribbons from the corners , taken them up into a pyramid shape and tied them to the lamp above . |
| 12 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 13 | It gets them up through a business meeting and brings them back down to earth when the crisis is passed . |
| 14 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 15 | Someone rang me up on a phone-in programme , and he said ‘ I read your book , I think it 's absolutely disgusting . ’ |
| 16 | Get y'rself up as a Geho'quein spine-toad or somethin ’ , come on down and mingle . |
| 17 | He guaranteed his windows against everything up to a BlastMaster minimissile , but you were usually too dead to complain if he supplied you with defective merch . |
| 18 | She pushed herself up into a sitting position . |
| 19 | Not trusting her voice , she shook her head , and , pulling herself up into a sitting position , watched him walk away . |
| 20 | The Thelma & Louise star , then a sales assistant , impressed a talent spotter who snapped her up for a stage role . |
| 21 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 22 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 23 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 24 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 25 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 26 | One day ; Jacko promised himself , one day I 'll tap him on the head and wall him up in a brick kiln . |
| 27 | The pair had star quality written all over their faces as they hammed it up at a Buddy Holly tribute . |
| 28 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 29 | And I 'd thought to follow it up with a gourmet meal somewhere . |
| 30 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |