Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We climbed onto it , put our arms into the shaft of sunlight , grasped the upper edges of the hole and , one by one , hauled ourselves up through a manhole into another street . |
| 2 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 3 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 4 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
| 5 | But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self . |
| 6 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 7 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 8 | Is my hon. Friend aware that while Derbyshire county council 's policies have led to the redundancies of hundreds of teachers recently , and while Derbyshire is the only county in England to have fewer policemen than 10 years ago , none the less the county council 's job creation priorities have managed to find no fewer than three posts at £40,000 per annum for former Labour councillors and Members of Parliament , the council leader has fitted himself up with a job at an annual equivalent salary of £40,000 , the leader of the Derbyshire Labour party — one David Skinner — has been given a job as a minder to Japanese business men despite being kicked out of the council for corruption 15 years ago , and his wife has been given a job at £23,000 per annum in the council 's bloated publicity department ? |
| 9 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 10 | ‘ Damn cheek , ’ he muttered , and hitched himself up onto the edge of the couch . |
| 11 | He worked himself up into the kind of rage that leads to unforgivable things being said . |
| 12 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 13 | But he emphasised that he would not put himself up as a challenger to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 14 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 15 | The dapper , 52-year-old economist with his trademark owlish glasses had set himself up as a beacon of the reform movement as long ago as April 1991 when he led his party out of government . |
| 16 | He sets himself up as the Father of the British Industry yet he does n't deliver the goods . |
| 17 | He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them ! |
| 18 | On Fridays and other fast-days he would lock himself up in the church for many hours . |
| 19 | When the old publican went off his head and shut himself up in the snug with an ex-War Department Verey pistol , and shot distress signals through the serving hatch at anyone who came near ? ’ |
| 20 | Then they watched him pull himself up from the support of the couch and , keeping his eyes on Emma until he had passed her , he strode from the room . |
| 21 | Benny pulled himself up from the floor with difficulty . |
| 22 | Mr Mullings heaved himself up by the back of the bench for a better look . |
| 23 | When he rose from his knees , helping himself up by the rim of her altar , newly draped in celebration of her return , and expectation of her continued residence , he did not at once leave her . |
| 24 | He 's a simple manic-depressive , as Millie could evidently see , and he 's talking himself up like a balloon from the safe plains of the depression into the thin , high air of the mania . |
| 25 | And if you look at the bottom of that table , somebody up to the age of thirty nine , will pay two percent of their premium erm , for the waiver of premium benefit . |
| 26 | The ascent on to the ridge evolves in easy stages , taking you up over a number of small , craggy knolls until you reach the commodious upper slopes of the Munro . |
| 27 | ‘ It was Faye , dear , silly Faye , with her ridiculous attempt to doll you up into the sort of woman she thought I 'd want . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 29 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 30 | What kind of friend hooks you up on a beam over a terrifying machine ? … |