Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 2 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
| 3 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott , caught up in something of the optimism in the British Imperial Headquarters at Cairo after General Wavell 's sweeping desert victories of December 1940 , was aware of these and many more problems as he completed a survey through the periscope of a mine-laying submarine off the island of Rhodes , which lies close to the Turkish coast ( see map p. 116 ) . |
| 4 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 5 | A well was sunk in the back garden , and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen . |
| 6 | cos you get fed up of them in the end |
| 7 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 8 | The seven books of miracles are made up of one on the Glory of the Martyrs , another on the passion and miracles of St Julian of Brioude , four on the miracles of St Martin , and one on the Glory of the Confessors . |
| 9 | This is what enables us in historical study to bridge the gulf between the present and the past , to enter into the experience and awareness which are opened up for us in the thoughts , beliefs , practices and social customs and institutions of other times and other cultures . |
| 10 | She had given up concerning herself with the agent of the Scarabae . |
| 11 | Down beneath them the lights round the swimming-pool shone cheerfully , and the voice of the singer floated up to them in the starlight , as in a natural amphitheatre . |
| 12 | His admirable Swiss detectives had checked up on her with the central police register of foreigners , and then elicited the information from the police in Jersey . |
| 13 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 14 | This is strongly implied in John chapter 6 where the Spirit is brought closely into relation with ‘ eating his body and drinking his blood ’ and so being confident of dwelling in Christ , being fed by him , and being raised up by him at the last day ( 6:54,56,63 ) ; just as he is in chapter 3:3–8 in connection with the new birth . |
| 15 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 16 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 17 | The invasion of Panama , curiously summed up for her in the shape of Chinook helicopters , had served as a convenient diversion . |
| 18 | Although the sociologists and anthropologists are too polite to mention it , social codes in general including in these changing times whichever one was brought up in oneself by the preceding generation , can be seen from a sufficient distance to have been in large part shaped by gross delusions about the cosmos and about man , and by a brutal ignorance of everyone outside one 's own people , sex and class . |
| 19 | She had been woken up at one in the morning by Mr Landor and again at four , and both times he had been abusive , calling her ‘ a bitch as fat and stupid ’ as his wife . |
| 20 | So what if he did n't want to spend the day cooped up with her in the bedroom , only emerging when hunger demanded that their stomachs be fed ? |
| 21 | Then another of the party called her name , a girl this time , and within seconds it was taken up by everyone in the pool . |
| 22 | You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’ |
| 23 | As such , it has effected significant changes in some of the Bills sent up to it by the Commons . |
| 24 | The bloke has lost all respect from me — and fuck knows have I stood up for him in the past . |
| 25 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |