Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 2 | It makes one wonder how much longer its OEM customer , technology partner and minority shareholder Hewlett-Packard Co is going to wait before buying the company and putting it out of its misery — or is it going to stand aside and let Sequoia 's other major partner , Samsung Electronics Co , Seoul , South Korea nip in and snap it up under its nose ? |
| 3 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 4 | He reached down and bundled her up into his arms , trying to drown the feeble cries of pain that she uttered , reassuring her that everything would be all right . |
| 5 | She was pushing against his chest but Fred rose to his feet and , moving sideways , suddenly bent down and swept her up in his strong arms . |
| 6 | No you just marked it down and cleared it up at the end of the year . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're certainly tearing things down and putting them up at the moment . |
| 8 | We knew that they were testing them , and checking it over and bringing it up to standard , but we did n't know anything about it other than that ! |
| 9 | Unless the agent can give you figures showing that it really will pay you to cash in your present policy and take out a completely new one , keep it on and top it up with another , smaller policy . |
| 10 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 11 | It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home . |
| 12 | So we go up and pick her up in Kensington , bring her back , she unpacks her bag and plonks herself down , she eats everything that 's put in front of her , and second helpings , |
| 13 | Now this is where you go to the branch , and the branch management team stand up and bring you up to date with everything that 's happening in the company with product changes , legislation changes , yes , some of it 's boring , but it 's information you 've got to have . |
| 14 | She took one out and carried it up to her bedroom and shut herself in . |
| 15 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 16 | Once these images must have excited lust — enough to make someone take the trouble to cut them out and stick them up on the wall ; but after a day or two , or a week or two , the pictures had ceased to arouse , they had become familiar — faded and tattered and oil-stained , almost indistinguishable from the dirt and debris of the rest of the factory . |
| 17 | How could it have come about , he marvelled afresh , that they had parcelled it out and tied it up with strings of law ? |
| 18 | Go right round a f these the field and cut your first swathe out and tie it up with a a load of the straw that you 'd cut and bind it up , bundle it up and shove that in the hedge bottom . |
| 19 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 20 | Later in the afternoon the sheriff 's men came back and dragged me up before the justices . |
| 21 | They milled around and tidied him up to his satisfaction and went on their way singing : |
| 22 | So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter . |