Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US Sun Chemical Corporation exploited the weakness of the pound yesterday and snapped it up for just under £15m , or 167.5p a share . |
| 2 | It 's probably full of abbreviations and emendations because you 've had to rush to get it all down , so take it home and write it up into recognisable dialogue . |
| 3 | I can show you hawthorn , beech , oak , ash , elderberry and sycamore ; after that I have to take a leaf home and look it up in a book . |
| 4 | Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day |
| 5 | Shelley cleaned the wound very thoroughly and bound it up with a clean dressing . |
| 6 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 7 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 8 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 9 | But , George is off Monday and Tuesday but so if you were getting them , sitting here and bringing them up on Thursday John can come here and get his tea here and then take them home . |
| 10 | If you have stress incontinence this exercise will help if you do it regularly and keep it up for several months : |
| 11 | These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass . |
| 12 | Peter took her there and picked her up at the end of the day . |
| 13 | Holly spoke the language , so he 'd better jump on an Aeroflot and get over there and chase it up with the Ministry . |