Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday .
2 ‘ You did n't know he was a drunken sot who beat her up on a Saturday night , did you ? ’
3 I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club .
4 They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke .
5 And he brought this up about the units I had and he he rang me up on the Friday night is n't it ?
6 He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself .
7 When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally .
8 ‘ They picked me up from a Sunday team near White Hart Lane when I was 11 and there are a lot like me , ’ Watson said .
9 Hilary was eighteen when Meredith picked him up at the BBC Club . ’
10 When Kendall snapped him up from the Anfield out-tray 16 months ago for £1m , everybody said what a bargain he had bought .
11 I picked it up off the Manchester lads in our regiment .
12 She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers .
13 ‘ So it will confuse the trackers mightily — especially since I think they picked us up at the Luxembourg border crossing , then followed us in our Mercedes down the autobahn . ’
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