Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |
| 2 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 3 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 4 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 5 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
| 6 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 7 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
| 8 | Once it was home , the stalwart Alan helped me up to the loft with it , where it awaits my occupation in due course . |
| 9 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 11 | Hazel caught him up by the culvert . |
| 12 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 13 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 14 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 15 | The violence in him was suddenly frightening , yet it touched her inside , caught her up in a tangle of emotions too powerful to analyse . |
| 16 | His mother helped him up onto the seat beside Mr McDoodle . |
| 17 | A bulky label helped him up to the belt . |
| 18 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 19 | ‘ You did n't know he was a drunken sot who beat her up on a Saturday night , did you ? ’ |
| 20 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 21 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 22 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 23 | Someone had seen the open door , and fastened it up in a fit of misplaced zeal . |
| 24 | He fixed us up with a drink , accommodation and a training session that evening . |
| 25 | He lined us up in the corridor and told the other Corporals that he would deal with us . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 28 | That woke you up with a bang . |
| 29 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 30 | 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 . |