Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 2 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 3 | You could have warmed it up with a hot water bottle or a heat pad do n't leave it there with the baby in it , but you can certainly warm the bed first , you can warm the baby 's clothes , keep them in the airing cupboard , or lots of houses around here have Agas do n't they ? |
| 4 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 5 | He had once summed her up to a female student , after several lagers , as ‘ no tits to speak of and even less bum ’ . |
| 6 | Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective . |
| 7 | And we 'd started him up with a little donkey engine and a saw bench , started him up making bundles of firewood up . |
| 8 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |