Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] up in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 2 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 3 | So have to hide it up in the wardrobe . |
| 4 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 5 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 6 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 7 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 8 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 9 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 10 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 11 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 12 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 13 | ‘ Forget all this romantic stuff about tossing it up , batsmen careering down the pitch to slog it up in the air , and even slipping in the occasional chinaman . |
| 14 | They provided my family and I with currency exchange at competitive rates , advice on aeroplane repairs , free landing and hangarage , free overnight accommodation — and even organised on-the-spot Customs clearance when a friend came to pick us up in a twin the following morning . |
| 15 | This was a slow process , for Tom had to keep stopping to explain what the words meant , and several times had to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 16 | A{ declaration } is defined in BNF as : Using the " translate and test " instruction , show how a program could be written to check any character string against this definition , and extract the{ ident } s in order to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 17 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 18 | He 'd like to shut me up in a box for the next two years . |
| 19 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 20 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 21 | Its defenders have certainly been reluctant to give it up in the face of criticisms , for fear that ‘ without it , the macro-economists would be adrift in a sea of unorganized data ’ ( Samuelson and Nordhaus 1985 ) . |
| 22 | The overlap area is difficult , and it is therefore better to insist on the rigorous separation of the two methodological approaches than to mix them up in a compromise , or to treat one as logically more worthy of respect than the other . |
| 23 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 24 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to wake him up in the night saying : ‘ I 'm never going to give you a baby — what 's wrong with me ? |
| 26 | Yeah , I 'm going to ring them up in a moment and tell them I object to some of the advertisements , particularly for drugs that they 're advertising . |
| 27 | We 're the ones who used to ring them up in the middle of the night . |
| 28 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 29 | " No , we 're busy , I 'll get someone to take you up in a minute . " |
| 30 | When the sales er marketing exec goes round to the golf club to sign them up in the contract with the contract we will print one or other or both . |