Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next time someone cuts you up on the fast lane , pity him . |
| 2 | There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard . |
| 3 | So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious . |
| 4 | A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall . |
| 5 | She made no protest when Travis removed her boots and jumper , nor when he lay down beside her , turning her so that they lay spoon-fashion before zipping them up into the quilted cocoon . |
| 6 | So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim . |
| 7 | Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day |
| 8 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 9 | Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges . |
| 10 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 11 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 12 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 13 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 14 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 15 | Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper . |
| 16 | The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary . |
| 17 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 18 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 19 | Then , after carefully taking off his heavy rings , he picked each of the tiles up in turn , holding them up by the extreme edge . |
| 20 | If this is the case , the European Court held that it must permit the applicant to establish that since obtaining his/her qualifications , he/she had gained further knowledge and qualifications to bring him/her up to the necessary standard . |
| 21 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 22 | I think he 's at the bottom of a bog with a hole in his head and they 're waiting to scoop her up at the right moment . |
| 23 | Garvey stood her up on the beer-stained trestle where she stamped out the rhythm with one foot and played jigs on her pipe . |
| 24 | Shelley , already on her feet , carried her up to the medical centre with Carlos 's help . |
| 25 | Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside . |
| 26 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 27 | Any way , Aunt Bessie brought her up in the little house built by her husband and brother-in-law which was near to South Stainmore . |
| 28 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 29 | She sought his mouth again , wrapping her arms around his neck , offering and receiving a kiss so fierce , impatient and demanding that she clung to him and she lost her balance , fell against him , felt him gather her up against the inflammatory hardness of his body and lift her on to the bed . |
| 30 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |