Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 2 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 3 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 4 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 5 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 6 | But he could remember the sound of her voice on the phone that morning , when he 'd called her up from the School , too well . |
| 7 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 8 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
| 9 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 10 | If the letter had been burnt in the presence of all the members of the family immediately after being read , then the copy could only have been sent to him before they received it , by the person who went to pick it up from the rubbish skip . |
| 11 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | I kept mixing it up with the florin , |
| 13 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 14 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |
| 15 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 16 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 17 | Ward 's payment was agreed with Saunders ‘ a man who had huge authority in that company because he had picked it up by the scruff of the neck and transformed it . ’ |
| 18 | They had to forward it up to the Pentagon . |
| 19 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
| 20 | That she had n't heard of the plan was scarcely surprising , since Belinda had made it up on the spur of the moment . |
| 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 | He said in a letter to The Times that ministers had to leave it up to the court whether or not the documents should be disclosed . |
| 23 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 24 | This excellent system of continental escorting and fighting-off the Luftwaffe marked the beginning of the end for the Luftwaffe as we had known it up to the advent of the newly-engined Mustang . |
| 25 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 26 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 27 | The timber and the bath and such came across by boat into the bay there , and a fine job they had dragging them up to the house . ’ |
| 28 | Cloud was advancing steadily again over the moon 's face , and its shadow rolled across the mitred stones of the abbots , and covered the dark inward movement of the men who had followed him up from the water . |
| 29 | We were surprised that the sultan had even noticed our arrival , but the young courier who had taken us up to the guesthouse laughed . |
| 30 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |