Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Long ago the the abbots of Cupar Angus , they came up to spend the summer m summer months at Dalvaine . |
| 32 | At 5 o'clock they turned up to find the police waiting for them . |
| 33 | In California there was no competition , in Maryland there was no competition , every place that G Tec operates , they go in , they hire the highest price talent , they hire the most politically connected talent and they end up getting the contract . |
| 34 | Do they end up working the way we 've got to bloody work here on this tiny pension or the pension that they 've earned as an MP |
| 35 | Then they move up to take the Cross , and you drop back to the end of the file . |
| 36 | Often they ended up wandering the streets . |
| 37 | Want me to end up making the tea . |
| 38 | He hung up studying the information . |
| 39 | He leapt up to take the mug from her shaking hand . |
| 40 | He leapt up to discover the truth . |
| 41 | ‘ Bastards ! ’ he said loudly , and repeated the oath as he reached up to untie the string that held the body of the puppy . |
| 42 | Even from this distance she could see the way muscles rippled across his chest as he reached up to unlock the window , the wedge of dark hair that arrowed down from his collar-bone , and she felt heat run along her veins . |
| 43 | He looked up to see the restaurant door slam and was left with nothing but a whiff of her perfume . |
| 44 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 45 | ‘ He gave up chasing the girls , did he ? ’ |
| 46 | He gave up playing the field and married a year ago , to a sinewy woman called Cheryl Berkoff . |
| 47 | Look at him — throwin' his eye up your skirt — and it no time at all since he gave up wettin' the bed ! ’ |
| 48 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 49 | He ended up getting the death penalty , not for murder , but for molesting a 12-year-old . |
| 50 | Above all it held up to ridicule the idea that political decisions should be taken within a moral framework . |