Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 2 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |
| 3 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 4 | really , your pipes should be levels , should go I drape my pipe over it if I do it , or hang it up at the back . |
| 5 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 6 | Someone who 's forever pushing her hair out of her eyes , or stuffing it up in a clip on top of her head simply looks harassed . |
| 7 | The other alternatives were to shoot the plane down before it landed or blow it up on the ground at Teheran airport when all the Imam 's followers had come forward to welcome him . |
| 8 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 9 | Highlighting Labour 's key theme of the NHS , he said voters faced a stark choice : to build up the health service under Labour or to break it up under the Conservatives . |
| 10 | Once the core units are engaged you can pile in alongside them or form them up beside the core units to block enemy attacks from the sides . |
| 11 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 12 | On the purl side , this creates a distortion in the stitches , either pulling them sideways or raising them up above the surface of the fabric . |
| 13 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 14 | So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious . |
| 15 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 16 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 17 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 18 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 19 | But because there 's a demand for it , the buses run to the school and pick them up at the school . |
| 20 | They 're erm , I erm , said goodbye come and pick me up by the school . |
| 21 | As she screamed , she felt arms grab hold of her and pick her up off the floor . |
| 22 | Er well Tony 's going to deliver it and pick it up on the Monday . |
| 23 | I will give him sharp orders , he thought , and bring him up on a short rein ; and I will see him come to terms , and kiss the hand that curbs him . |
| 24 | and these ladies used to tell us all about his and try and bring us up into a clean way of life , which was n't bad , was n't bad at all . |
| 25 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |
| 26 | What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ? |
| 27 | You know how you poke your nose against wire netting and push it up against an apple tree , but you still ca n't bite the bark because of the wire . |
| 28 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 29 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 30 | Someone had seen the open door , and fastened it up in a fit of misplaced zeal . |