Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Replacing the shoebox but leaving the tell-tale sea of marbles , he stood on Vic 's bed and tried , without success , to jump and pull himself up to the small opening . |
| 4 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 5 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 6 | So , in JUST LIKE A WOMAN ( Cert 15 ; General ) , it 's a bit of a relief when Gerald ( Adrian Pasdar ) finally admits he gets his kicks out of dressing as a woman — and proves the point by making himself up into the gorgeous Geraldine in front of her . |
| 7 | Rincewind , coiling himself like a spring , gave a standing jump and grasped a beam , swinging himself up into the relative safety of the roof with a strength that amazed him . |
| 8 | So , with one LP , Morrissey set himself up as the new Tom Robinson ? |
| 9 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 10 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 11 | Next time someone cuts you up on the fast lane , pity him . |
| 12 | and that brings you up onto the main Belfast road |
| 13 | There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard . |
| 14 | So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 18 | On the MS-DOS side of the connectivity business , Rabbit sees itself up against the big names — IBM , Novell and DCA . |
| 19 | A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall . |
| 20 | She made no protest when Travis removed her boots and jumper , nor when he lay down beside her , turning her so that they lay spoon-fashion before zipping them up into the quilted cocoon . |
| 21 | So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim . |
| 22 | Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day |
| 23 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 26 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 27 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 28 | Not only will I be dealing with some of your concerns through ‘ Vet 's Corner ’ , but I am taking them up with the very people who make the food — with some eye-opening results ! |
| 29 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 30 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |