Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pron] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
2 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
3 | So she 's saving them up for a |
4 | He 's done me up like a kipper and I fucking fell for it . |
5 | ‘ What about asking Albert 's to set you up with a really quiet-looking business outfit for New York ? |
6 | He is dressing it up as a concession , but , without amendment ( a ) , if there is a Conservative Government post election — I do not think that will happen , but we should explore the fantasies in case there is — the Secretary of State could decide not to set up a further education council in Scotland . |
7 | The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week . |
8 | He 's fixing us up in a flat , with kitchenette , out Godalming way , a live-in maintenance job . ’ |
9 | And seventh note is the leading note because it 's leading you up to the tonic again . |
10 | The standard reaction when you receive such charges is to draw yourself up in a dignified manner and disclaim all knowledge of the dastardly deed . |
11 | Well what we might have to do is concoct something up on a letter , a stand have you a standard charge ? |
12 | Andrew 's locked her up in a convent where no one can touch her . " |
13 | 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 . |
14 | And he goes she 's ke she 's beating him up under the chair she goes |
15 | The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century . |