Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 2 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 3 | While Kathleen wired him up to a monitor and put in an intravenous line , Ben ran gentle fingers over the boy . |
| 4 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 5 | Hilary was eighteen when Meredith picked him up at the BBC Club . ’ |
| 6 | The next morning , Ian woke her up with a cup of tea , said he was sorry about last night , he 'd had a bit too much to drink . |
| 7 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 8 | Alida hauled her up by the arms , plumped up the pillows , and shook them hard , until the dust soared . |
| 9 | In the second half , Swindon were again on top whilst Maclaren fired them up with a free kick . |
| 10 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 11 | I said : ‘ You know as I drove along Princes Street to pick you up from the office I had a feeling I left something behind . |
| 12 | But Magilton wrapped it up with a fierce free-kick . |
| 13 | Finally , my old friend Alistair Sampson set me up with a cheerful office over his shop in the Brompton Road , where I am gathering stock and beginning life again . |
| 14 | Lee Sharpe 's fourth goal in three games opened the way after seven minutes , Cantona rapped in a 45th minute penalty and Steve Bruce wrapped it up with an 88th minute header . |
| 15 | It takes a Wittgenstein to pull us up with a jolt , by saying that this is like translating a chair — not the word ‘ chair ’ , but a chair — into French . |
| 16 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 17 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 18 | ‘ Does James Flemyng keep you up to the mark ? ’ |
| 19 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |
| 20 | " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin . |
| 21 | Garvey stood her up on the beer-stained trestle where she stamped out the rhythm with one foot and played jigs on her pipe . |
| 22 | When Kendall snapped him up from the Anfield out-tray 16 months ago for £1m , everybody said what a bargain he had bought . |
| 23 | Mr Verne-Smith paid me up till the end of April , so that 's seven weeks you owe me — let's say six and a half to be fair . ’ |
| 24 | Albert walked them up through the Grove . |
| 25 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 26 | Crilly fixes us up with a brown powdered lump upon the foil . |
| 27 | Crilly sets me up with a tube and foil . |
| 28 | There is no silver foil , so Crilly sets us up with an empty chocolate wrapping from his pocket . |
| 29 | He opened the rear door and folded Goldman on to the seat ; his legs trailed into the road and Elliott tucked them up on the seat . |
| 30 | An architectural Gone With The Wind with Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara hamming it up across the Grand Canal . |