Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout , the old lady sits silent , hands on lap , eyes on agitated thumbs and as she looks up to witness the man 's retreat her tear-streaked face is racked with pain . |
| 2 | I said in the morning when she gets up have a look at her |
| 3 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 4 | And when irons he he boils up boils a saucepan of water and puts the saucepan over it ! |
| 5 | She kicks the high-flying American banker out of the family home and he winds up renting a room in the home of lonely divorcee Monica . |