Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 2 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 3 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 4 | We were called by EMI , RCA , Arista , Warner Brothers and I hung up the phone on all of them . |
| 5 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 6 | After a while , he said , ‘ Did you give up the job on the Council , then ? ’ |
| 7 | You fire up the engine on the starter button and the mechanic waves you out into the pit lane and you realize that the overall purpose of a racing car 's design is that you should feel a pure sense of yourself in propulsion . |
| 8 | The lightstick lasts for up to six hours sometimes longer you tee up the ball on every shot so that you ca n't hit the light stick out when this game is played the flags are all lit up with bigger lightsticks . |
| 9 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 10 | We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist . |
| 11 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 12 | Thistle made sure they kept up the pressure on Alex Totten 's men by defeating Falkirk at Fir Hill , with Alan Dinnie scoring the winner . |
| 13 | They wound up the valley on a broad ride through trees . |
| 14 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 15 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 16 | Did n't he mess up the header/flick on that allowed Sheron to score the first goal ? |
| 17 | See he smashed up the house on Christmas day . |
| 18 | Despite being scheduled for late September , it 's still delayed as the label rushes to press enough copies to send it soaring up the charts on the heels of MUDHONEY 's pre-posthumous release . |
| 19 | Despite being scheduled for late September , it 's still delayed as the label rushes to press enough copies to send it soaring up the charts on the heels of MUDHONEY 's pre-posthumous release . |
| 20 | JIM 'S PUB : He snapped up the lease on the Old Bells to keep a job |
| 21 | He took some time because he jacked up the chair on books to make good the missing leg , rather than have an unsuspecting colleague collapse . |
| 22 | He picked up the ball on the edge of his penalty area , pushed it to Ricky McAvoy who laid on the chance for McCallan to drill his shot past Wesley Lamont . |
| 23 | In the sixty fourth minute , Pedro Herbert restored the home side 's lead when he picked up the ball on the break and side footed it past keeper Cummings , to make it two one to Harefield . |
| 24 | MARTIN LYNCH realised the wildest dream of every jump jockey when , at the 11th hour , he picked up the mount on strongly-fancied contender Cool Ground in today 's Martell Grand National at Aintree . |