Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 2 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 3 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 4 | You all know what Strats sound like and what 5-position selectors do , but to get an overall picture of this guitar I lined it up against a regular office hack ( a Tokai hybrid with an old ‘ 58 Fender neck and Alnico Pro II 's in the middle and bridge positions ) and can report that the SRV came out well . |
| 5 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 6 | Michael Green , its creator , built it up from a small photo-processing company . |
| 7 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 8 | In the second half , Swindon were again on top whilst Maclaren fired them up with a free kick . |
| 9 | And do n't forget the fellow who saved all his apple pips and crunched them up as a special treat ( apple-pip kernels , like those of plum , peach and apricot , contain tiny quantities of cyanide ) : he died . |
| 10 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |
| 11 | She took the paper napkin from her lap and crunched it up into a tight ball , dropping it on to her plate . |
| 12 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 13 | He plunged at Rex , who had nowhere to run , scooped him up with a single movement and held him good and high . |
| 14 | But unlike many well-meaning friends , he followed it up with a practical alternative : ‘ Tell God every detail of your needs in earnest and thankful prayer , and the peace of God , which transcends human understanding , will keep constant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Christ Jesus . ’ |
| 15 | Then , in a fit of excess , he ratcheted it up to a full 2 million job losses . |
| 16 | Then I rang her up with a real ‘ he said , I said ’ story , an embroilment with a friend which had worried me . |
| 17 | Shelley cleaned the wound very thoroughly and bound it up with a clean dressing . |
| 18 | She brushed past Penry , eluding the hand he put out to detain her as she ran outside to the car , deaf to his entreaties as she jumped in the car and started it up with a violent rev of the engine . |
| 19 | and cleaned me up with a large whitewash brush . |
| 20 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 21 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 22 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 23 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 24 | He summed her up as a sharp little piece with a head on her shoulders . |
| 25 | As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ . |
| 26 | Fortunately , the high camp of ‘ Goldfinger ’ , ‘ The World We Knew ’ and Brazil ’ set them up for a storming end . |
| 27 | Fortunately , the high camp of ‘ Goldfinger ’ , ‘ The World We Knew ’ and Brazil ’ set them up for a storming end . |
| 28 | Finally , my old friend Alistair Sampson set me up with a cheerful office over his shop in the Brompton Road , where I am gathering stock and beginning life again . |
| 29 | Anne was jolted , but Jeane Russell held her up with a painful grip . |
| 30 | But Magilton wrapped it up with a fierce free-kick . |