Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could then lean back and pick up the front foot , thrusting it straight into the opponent 's solar plexus . |
| 2 | Colonel Feather had then expressed a worry that children could easily reach over and scoop up a fingerful of frosting , perhaps spoiling someone 's chances , so he and Mr Doran — the latter complaining mightily about his lumbago — had moved the cakes to the back of the table . |
| 3 | Aware of their vanity and dread of baldness , he would reach over and lift up a lock of hair , saying , ‘ A little more brain showing today ? ’ |
| 4 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 5 | He says : ‘ It 's ludicrous that we have to wait for three to five years when a foreign company can come in and pick up a UK TV company right now . ’ |
| 6 | At the same time , he needed to have someone to ‘ come along and set up a boundary . |
| 7 | I know now he was just trying to make a sale and did n't have my size in stock , but since he was wearing a fleecy top and tracksuit trousers I believed him , and bought these huge leather edifices that a young married couple could quite comfortably live in and bring up a family . |
| 8 | I mean any of us really could sit down and draw up a list of er of things where , if we , you know , a list of rules if e war for a very small subscription ornot many groups other and if everybody stuck by them , everything would be wonderful |