Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Jenny holds me up with one arm and shouts at him .
2 She holds it up in different lights and tries to con its meaning .
3 Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions .
4 With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol .
5 you need to this first year and it gets you up to that level
6 Rather than analysing society in terms of one kind of component , Althusser claims that Marx breaks it up into related units called , in Althusserean parlance , ‘ practices ’ .
7 And he says , when he gets it up to sixty mile an hour on t' motorway it 's still vibrating .
8 Laverne is launched into the still treacle of pond water which reluctantly draws itself up like sluggish curtains to receive this intrusion .
9 This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover .
10 Cornard United 's 3–0 win over Norwich United moves them up to third position .
11 There 's even a fireplace which can be installed on a wall with no flue : a container of special fuel is lit under ‘ coals ’ , and gives you up to three hours of warmth and flames with no mess , no de-ashing , and no chimney is needed .
12 Bretz 's last paper on the subject sums it up in vivid terms :
13 You get in , and an old Pawnee tows you up to 3,000 feet , and then you drop the tow-rope and you 're on your own , with Mike , the chief instructor , sitting in the back saying , ‘ Stop , overcontrolling it , ’ and ‘ Use some rudder , damn it , ’ and ‘ Thought you said you were a pilot ? ’ and ‘ There you are , see ?
14 The third is the supposedly ’ British model ’ , which leaves it up to individual companies to negotiate their own arrangements .
15 You will see from the lists above that modem education brings us up from early childhood to use our left brains in preference to our right brains .
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