Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For anything up to £500 , this place can fix you up with a fashion accessory in a class of its own . |
| 2 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 3 | And , to give the table setting a special festive feel , Kate has attached wide red satin ribbons from the corners , taken them up into a pyramid shape and tied them to the lamp above . |
| 4 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 5 | It gets them up through a business meeting and brings them back down to earth when the crisis is passed . |
| 6 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 7 | Someone rang me up on a phone-in programme , and he said ‘ I read your book , I think it 's absolutely disgusting . ’ |
| 8 | The Thelma & Louise star , then a sales assistant , impressed a talent spotter who snapped her up for a stage role . |
| 9 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 10 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 11 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 12 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 13 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 14 | One day ; Jacko promised himself , one day I 'll tap him on the head and wall him up in a brick kiln . |
| 15 | The pair had star quality written all over their faces as they hammed it up at a Buddy Holly tribute . |
| 16 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 17 | And I 'd thought to follow it up with a gourmet meal somewhere . |
| 18 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 19 | I sliced it up with a radiologist friend . |
| 20 | Press response If there does not seem to be any response to your press release , do not be afraid to follow it up with a telephone call . |
| 21 | She invited him to cover it up with a paper bag but he snapped the band round the back of his head and ran off into the street , an elephant ramping above the collar of his jersey , his new trunk bobbing . |
| 22 | One brave man grabbed a Lewis gun and , to save time , set it up on a rubbish bin rather than the tripod and fired away . |
| 23 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 25 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 26 | ‘ We set it up as a pilot programme to answer the call for more training in the field . |
| 27 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 28 | To celebrate , Sun Microsystems staff moved all the furniture out of his office , fixed it up like a Burger King stand , poured Scott into a Burger King uniform and had him handing out his favourite food . |
| 29 | It was a full fifteen feet and the offshore wind was holding it up like a crystal tower . |
| 30 | I picked it up from a golfing friend of mine for £25 back in the early Sixties . |