Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image sometimes shows incomplete leaves , base and tip present with a segment missing , or it picks up isolated points which do not correspond to subject material . |
| 2 | Time I and I woke up some friends . ’ |
| 3 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 4 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 5 | I flit from flower to flower , and I pick up different things from different flowers . ’ |
| 6 | I pushed hard and I picked up some places , but then in the bad conditions Lehto caught me and I went off into the wet and that was it . ’ |
| 7 | I went into London and I picked up this Tokai and just fell in love with it — it just had the perfect neck . |
| 8 | It were nice just to relax and I started smoking again and I packed up last Sunday . |
| 9 | My father carries me from the car and I glide up two flights of concrete steps , suspended in midair by anti-gravity . |
| 10 | Wendy and I saved up two days ' leave for New Year , and we decided to spend it with my cousin , through whom we had the marriage connection . |
| 11 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 12 | and you go up this thing that winds in and out and like there 'd be cockerels sitting on the , on the little fences you have to go round , trying to peck you to death , er I was like only tiny , you know , it was just like |
| 13 | If you , if you are standing like this and you pick up one foot you will slightly raise your pelvis on the opposite side wo n't you ? |
| 14 | You have a track record and you build up this understanding and you acquire the skills , and it gets easier and easier . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |
| 16 | Vaguely ashamed of her behaviour , she then tried to draw back , but his arms tightened , preventing her , and she gave up all thoughts of resistance . |
| 17 | Roman 's arm tightened round her waist as if he knew her thoughts , and she gave up all hope of escape , for the moment . |
| 18 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 19 | Er , they reckon they grow two to three foot a year they 're the fast grow ones , once they get a hold , they start growing and they shoot up each week and when they start shooting up , that 's when , you 've got to keep them watered , and you 've got to feed them with that plant stuff do you know what I mean ? |
| 20 | Well it 's a joke , because , they take up all the seats , like they 're in two seats of four , and a , there is no way you can , half the students , these silly old people come in and they take up four seats and eat our lunch . |
| 21 | And they set up little communities |
| 22 | It 's true you know if a di if a child did come out the gate , with that wee fella yesterday I saw him he was with Ryan and he went up that path like lightning . |
| 23 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 24 | And he picked up four people on his , on that , imagine your the bus driver . |
| 25 | From here he could see the two talking men quite clearly , and he picked up various objects on display , looking at them quite interestedly , and keeping only half an eye on the scene outside . |
| 26 | His head dropped , his wings sagged , and he gave up any attempt to fly out , not just then but ever . |
| 27 | see and he started up that way and , and the religion was the most popular thing in the country , but all the people were outlaws . |
| 28 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 29 | ‘ And that one ‘ undred was only because the grahnd sloped like the north face of Iverest of ‘ e ‘ ad only to tap the ball and it got up faster speed than any fielder . ’ |
| 30 | Blocks them off as well yeah , and it comes up one channel in use when they cleared out card down , it clears the card so you can take it out I do n't , they come down three channels in use , two channels in use , one channel in use . |