Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 2 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Kersey called after him : ‘ Shaw has fixed us up at the hotel on the prom — is that all right ? ’ |
| 4 | Dear Julie gets drunk and for some bizarre reason suddenly starts feeling you up under the table while we 're nibbling our cheese and biscuits , and making pathetic double-entendres , and attacks you outside the bathroom ; totally unprovoked , of course , and it 's all just the drink talking . |
| 5 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |
| 6 | This means lining it up with the features on the ground . |
| 7 | he likes putting it up outside the front door and put these lights on it . |
| 8 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 9 | He 's built us up from the ruins of 1987 . |
| 10 | It 's thickened it up at the front in n it ? |
| 11 | I know , council 's put them up with the |