Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there 's classic sort of stories about organisation where the the er president of the organisation asks somebody to investigate something and that gets translated by the vice president into sort of rather more hostile sort of thing and basically it ends up with somebody at the bottom of the pile having their ass kicked or whatever because it 's been translated , or mis- translated down , okay ? |
| 2 | When the car goes wrong , who ends up underneath it in the snow ? |
| 3 | Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end . |
| 4 | Stepson , a short-haired cat of some unaccountable breed , jumps up beside me on the seat . |
| 5 | Nobody walks up to me in the street and says , ’ God , I think you 're really sexy . ’ |
| 6 | Jacqui Rogers , Continuity PA , explains how she has to observe every scene and check everything matches up from one to the next . |
| 7 | Because Mrs B , right she just prejudiced , she comes up to me in the Cookery lesson , tell me to clean out the dustbin , and I was so vexed I started to cry , I was so vexed by it . |
| 8 | He walks along the top of ancient city walls , passing secretly among the rooftops , through a world of slates and television aerials and caged birds at dormer windows ; emerges upon high places where the whole city — roofs , towers , domes , and lives — is gathered at his feet , and the immense acreage of its noise comes up to him like the murmur of the sea . |
| 9 | Erm what actually happens if someone comes up to you in the night and says , My house has been burgled . |
| 10 | ‘ You see , if a beggar comes up to you in the street , you give him , or her , this card . |