Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was the ship 's agent who made a run for it in his car , guessing we would search his house after picking him up with some uncustomed goods . |
| 2 | Cycle parking is actually I wish they 'd actually pay a bit more places to actually put your bike and you did n't have to sort of tie it up to some lamppost or something |
| 3 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 4 | No amount of dressing it up in fancy language or elegant commentating will alter that . |
| 5 | Be nice in the summer and just put instead of doing her up in all these great big snowsuits , you know ? |
| 6 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 7 | They 're in the process of putting it up to two . |
| 8 | Not content with vamping it up in figure-skimming frocks with plunging cleavages and ribbon straps , we opt for the full dressing-up works , with long gloves , spindly stilettos , sparkling clutch bags and gleaming jewellery aplenty . |
| 9 | From this you can better judge both the potential of the farm and what is involved in bringing it up to that potential . |
| 10 | So that 's purely , I mean and there 's no point in picking you up on that because you just had n't got to that point . |
| 11 | How do you stop a cockerel from waking you up at five o'clock on a Monday morning ? |
| 12 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 14 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 15 | A large spreadsheet can be made much easier to work with by breaking it up into logical pieces on several pages of a notebook . |
| 16 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |