Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 3 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 4 | A spokeswoman for French TV station TF1 who screened the show , said last night : ‘ Eric is very close to his grandmother , who helped to bring him up as a child . |
| 5 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 6 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 7 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 8 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 9 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 10 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 11 | They provided my family and I with currency exchange at competitive rates , advice on aeroplane repairs , free landing and hangarage , free overnight accommodation — and even organised on-the-spot Customs clearance when a friend came to pick us up in a twin the following morning . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | John and his friend then began to fight back and were gaining the upper hand when the police intervened slamming them up against a wall with their arms pinned behind their backs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And we 'd started him up with a little donkey engine and a saw bench , started him up making bundles of firewood up . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
| 20 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 21 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 22 | The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | I kept mixing it up with the florin , |
| 26 | Twenty years ago , when the firm was of negligible size , Mr Fikret Abdić became its director and proceeded to build it up into a giant enterprise . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |
| 29 | It 's , it was done that 's why did block it up with a in the first instance . |
| 30 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |