Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got her up to seventy-five , too . |
| 2 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 3 | I caught him up at last . |
| 4 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 5 | Oh no , it 's like , it 's like with chocolate as well , I cut it up into little pieces , because I ca n't eat it all at once . |
| 6 | No , you said would I bring it up at this meeting . |
| 7 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 8 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 9 | on my own , brought them from Canada and I brought them up without any help from my ex-husband and I would n't of wanted it any other way . |
| 10 | Even the I crumple it up like that |
| 11 | getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes |
| 12 | I took her up on this , and the first thing we did was to bring Southall and Kizzy home . |
| 13 | Then I dressed her up in some things of my own ( oh , so much too big ! ) . |
| 14 | Why did n't I pick him up on that ? |
| 15 | Yes , with , with the wine we were subsidising it by about one fifty last year , shall I put it up to five fifty this year ? for members . |
| 16 | I take it up to this , yes |
| 17 | One or your down-fine hairs was on the pillow : I picked it up like gold-dust-sweet relic ! |
| 18 | Yes , so you divided it up like that |
| 19 | She holds it up in different lights and tries to con its meaning . |
| 20 | The first pad , if you hold it up against any of the other pads , you 'll see that it 's actually slightly shorter . |
| 21 | if you put it up to same they would n't come likely ? |
| 22 | Right , what I want you to do , I want you put it up like that |
| 23 | With about a third of a cup of milk , you mix it up with some sugar and then you put boiling water in . |
| 24 | And I feel really guilty , I think oh I better bring her in and then she wakes me up at six o'clock bouncing on the bed ! |
| 25 | ‘ Was there a particular reason that caused you to look me up after all this time , James ? ’ |
| 26 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 27 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 28 | we can you sign you up to one of these green forms . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's very kind of you to put me up at such short notice , but I really would n't dream of imposing . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's remarkably kind of you to put us up like this , and we 're both very grateful . ’ |