Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 2 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 3 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 4 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 5 | She tried to hold it up against Constance who pulled away and said loudly , ‘ Yellow ! |
| 6 | They helped fix us up with clothes , then with a solicitor for an injunction . |
| 7 | Yeah , because you tried to beat me up behind Mrs ! |
| 8 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 9 | Receptor molecules spit out their neurotransmitters once they have served their purpose , and the cell whence they came mops them up for reuse . |
| 10 | We 'd kept her up till quarter to eight and she was knackered . |
| 11 | Miss Jeanette told how Nichol had scratches on his face , neck and lip when he arrived to pick her up for work . |
| 12 | Yanto arranged to pick them up outside Sharpness Coop Sunday morning , after which Mary said it was time for her to go home . |
| 13 | It was only later that Trivers began to link it up with Darwin . |
| 14 | The patient 's first experiences of standing up , in the early stages after his stroke or head injury , aim to help his body regain the tonus needed to hold itself up against gravity ( pp.9 , 115 ) . |
| 15 | I went to pick them up at D'Amicos at eight . |
| 16 | She had been supervising classes at the Manchester school and was , in fact , the Miss Walker that Anne Liddy remembered making her up on tour . |
| 17 | Other reports said up to a dozen wanted people had given themselves up in Tulkarm . |
| 18 | Rufus had called her a waif and Adam had immediately ridiculed this word , said it was a romantic novelist 's word , so they had looked it up in Hilbert 's Shorter Oxford Dictionary and found illuminating things . |
| 19 | He had to pull himself up with help from other divers who pulled his umbilical , and anything else they could get hold of . |
| 20 | He had picked her up of intent , had followed her into this inn for some purpose of his own . |
| 21 | Perhaps the man had picked it up in West Cameroun . |
| 22 | I had pushed it up to £25,000 . |
| 23 | The Baroness had moved her up from London to Docklow . |
| 24 | Perhaps he really had dreamed her up after months of travelling . |
| 25 | They had tied her up to attention , with many a sniggering jest : They had bound a musket beside her , with the parrel beneath her breast ! |
| 26 | Gallardo had pulled himself up from poverty by sheer force of personality , tapping the electricity lines that ran above the shanty town and reading Marx by the light . |
| 27 | On NoS they were being treated to the miracle of new technology , bypassing the National Graphical Association compositors who , before the age of ‘ direct entry ’ computers , retyped the articles on Linotype hot metal machines after the subs had marked them up in pencil . |
| 28 | He did a double stint of exercise until he was clammy with globules of sweat and then sluiced himself over from the two cold jugs of water Christine had brought him up after breakfast . |
| 29 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 30 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |