Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It only remained to write everything up in a comprehensive report . |
| 3 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 4 | I am always happy to work myself up into a great cultural stew , given half the chance . |
| 5 | Back in Chapter 4 , I mentioned that pull-ups were very useful exercises because they strengthen the muscles needed to pull yourself up over a high wall . |
| 6 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 7 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 8 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 10 | Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer . |
| 11 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 12 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 13 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 14 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 15 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 16 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 17 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 18 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is possible to cover yourself up to a specified limit , for the loss or theft or fraudulent use of money and credit cards . |
| 21 | Chelmsford 's confidence was dented , a missing a chance to go one up on the 12th and then losing the next two holes as hope of taking the trophy back to the Widford clubhouse evaporated . |
| 22 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 23 | Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them . |
| 24 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 25 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 26 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 27 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 28 | If he improves over the next 3–4 years and lasts until he 's 30 , then you will have to put him up alongside the other 2 . |
| 29 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 30 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |