Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case it may be by asking the child to pick up a toy , being ignored , then compelling him or her to pick it up by physical guidance then putting the child out of the room and leaving him when the inevitable tantrum occurs . |
| 2 | And I get us up in the morning now and , she said she said the temperature rises to sometimes a hundred and twenty in the summer ! |
| 3 | It might if dust never gathered on the old photo albums full of the ex and I whooping it up in Corfu circa 1980 . |
| 4 | on my own , brought them from Canada and I brought them up without any help from my ex-husband and I would n't of wanted it any other way . |
| 5 | And I brought them up on Monday night |
| 6 | That 's my pocket notebook and I keep it up to date , that 's another piece of equipment I use . |
| 7 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 8 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
| 9 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 10 | Then Sam says something else — I do n't know — so I grab him and I have him up against the wall and feet are off the ground , and I said , ‘ Sam , I hope you know what I mean , Sam ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 12 | And you think , Oh what does this mean ? and you look it up in a dictionary wicked and you think , Oh |
| 13 | Ahmed : When you are Black and gay and you open yourself up to the realities and contradictions inherent in this combined identity , it provides a better basis for understanding other people 's experience , both intellectually and intuitively . |
| 14 | ‘ You get several colleagues and the latest British Telecom touch dial screen technology with all the market-makers ’ numbers pre-programmed and you ring 'em up at exactly the same time . |
| 15 | ‘ It was good of you to get in touch with me , Simon , ’ she murmured as he hooked down the loft-ladder and she followed him up into the roof space . |
| 16 | Her first major film part was in Grease 2 ( which flopped ) and she followed it up by playing Al Pacinos hard-faced , cocaine-snorting moll Elvira in the blockbuster Scar-face . |
| 17 | He hesitated for a moment , and she took him up on it . |
| 18 | Her eyes drifted shut and she gave herself up to the kiss 's magic , her own lips even more gentle and tentative than his . |
| 19 | His lips seemed to draw out from her all that was sweet , all that was female , and she gave herself up to the moment with an abandon that shocked her . |
| 20 | There was a long moment when she strove to clutch on to her dwindling resistance , then something seemed to make it snap , and she gave herself up to the delicious agony of his touch , helpless in his smouldering embrace . |
| 21 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 22 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
| 23 | He passed a mug to her and she propped herself up on the pillows to accept it . |
| 24 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 25 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |
| 26 | Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview . |
| 27 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 28 | And they bring them up to me |
| 29 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 30 | Half of the wine and they top it up with water . |