Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found the brassiere under the bed and Jo let him hook it up at the back for her . |
| 2 | She invited him to cover it up with a paper bag but he snapped the band round the back of his head and ran off into the street , an elephant ramping above the collar of his jersey , his new trunk bobbing . |
| 3 | She sought his mouth again , wrapping her arms around his neck , offering and receiving a kiss so fierce , impatient and demanding that she clung to him and she lost her balance , fell against him , felt him gather her up against the inflammatory hardness of his body and lift her on to the bed . |
| 4 | She saw him crumple them up in a sudden burst of impatience , and fling them across the parade . |
| 5 | I let him pick me up at the Marski . |
| 6 | He lines it up on the shiny sideboard . |
| 7 | He led her up to the bedrooms , the floors and stairs wooden , fans whirring overhead in the steamy heat , mosquito netting over every door and window . |
| 8 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 9 | He lined us up in the corridor and told the other Corporals that he would deal with us . |
| 10 | Belov brought her some broth about an hour later , and he helped her up to the bowl . |
| 11 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 12 | Then he knocks it up off the Road to about nine inches for a 4 . |
| 13 | He fixed us up with a drink , accommodation and a training session that evening . |
| 14 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 15 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 16 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
| 17 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 18 | But unlike many well-meaning friends , he followed it up with a practical alternative : ‘ Tell God every detail of your needs in earnest and thankful prayer , and the peace of God , which transcends human understanding , will keep constant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Christ Jesus . ’ |
| 19 | But his comment on her age was a throwaway one , it seemed , for he followed it up with a reference to his previous question by asking , ‘ Are you an only child ? ’ |
| 20 | The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he walked them up to the top of the hill and back again . |
| 21 | Then , in a fit of excess , he ratcheted it up to a full 2 million job losses . |
| 22 | I just do n't know what was wrong with it , I 've work , Jason said Ja we a subject turned to what he wore in bed Ja and Jason said nothing , right but he said when it 's winter I wear my t-shirt and the pants and I cuddle up to my glow worm and we was all taking the mickey out of his glow worm , right so I 've come home and I read the paper and I 'll see glow worm in it , so I cut it out and give it to him and he stuck it up in the factory ! |
| 23 | He scooped it up from the desk and threw it into Duvall 's face . |
| 24 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 25 | And he brought this up about the units I had and he he rang me up on the Friday night is n't it ? |
| 26 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |
| 27 | I put the matter in the hands of a local lawyer , and he took it up with the magistrates . |
| 28 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 29 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 30 | That was we were using that white stuff , you know thirty , thirty six ? off his hand where it had all dried and he rolled it up in a ball and hit me in the face with it , that hurt . |