Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passing one by one in front of a counter , a Corporal sized us up for height and girth before dumping a pile of cast-off clothes in front of each one of us . |
| 2 | Next morning , a chauffeur-driven limousine picked them up after breakfast . |
| 3 | I span my Phazer round , the wave lifted me up towards God , and I rose to my feet . |
| 4 | Eventually The Fat Controller pulled me up in front of a viciously scalped hedge of box . |
| 5 | She rested after lunch and then a taxi took her up to Hampstead and a shop that sold a certain kind of ethnic clothes not available elsewhere . |
| 6 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 7 | Maureen answered straight away , and listened eagerly , giving excited squeaks from time to time as her niece brought her up to date on everything that had happened . |
| 8 | AN ARMED miner gave himself up to police yesterday after a nine-hour underground protest over planned pit closures . |
| 9 | When it became obvious that he would not be successful he decided to train as a pharmacist and father set him up in business . ’ |
| 10 | A four-hour siege has ended peacefully after an armed man gave himself up to police . |
| 11 | I simply did n't need any more , although after a year 's work the headmaster put me up to £7 a week . |
| 12 | In 1991 , the village pub was threatened with closure when the brewery put it up for sale . |
| 13 | A black bucket of misery tipped itself up over Melanie 's head . |
| 14 | Robin from Rare Unit called us up with news of ramp happenings . |
| 15 | Tries from Ian Lucas and Sam Panapa put Wigan in front but a John Gilfallan try reduced the deficit to two points before Denis Betts ' try wrapped it up for Wigan in injury time . |