Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 2 | We got a same day driver picking me up at five fo , five thirty outside the hotel . |
| 3 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 5 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the most tremendous imposition , I know , and I have absolutely no right to call you up like this or anything , but I just — I just … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Has Candy put you up to this ? ’ |
| 8 | He kept a bedside diary giving her up to five stars a day for it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 11 | But do n't expect the unassuming islander to back you up on that view . |
| 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 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 15 | Peter Scudamore 's mount took it up from Jinxy Jack two out and sprinted clear on the flat , landing the odds by five lengths from Gordon Richards ' horse , with Fidway two lengths away in third . |
| 16 | ‘ If I had something to say I said it , ’ he recalls , ‘ but I did n't want you lot ringing me up at three o'clock in the morning . ’ |
| 17 | The junior competition looks set for new champion Andrew Martin ( Prescot Eagle-Atlas ) , whose title win shot him up to 17 points . |
| 18 | As it had in 1945 , 1964 and 1974 , Labour would inherit the mess the Tories had left behind , he said , but , this time , with an historic mission to clean it up for good . |
| 19 | There is a clearly written text with an illustrated chronology of the country 's history taking it up to 1992 . |
| 20 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |