Example sentences of "up [prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless we can get professional managers who are as good entrepreneurially as those who set up for themselves we shall have major problems ahead . |
| 2 | And to make up for it I 'll treat you to a slap-up lunch in Haverfordwest . ’ |
| 3 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 4 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 5 | We could n't do an awful lot because it was er er classed as a luxury business er and so we , we could n't get an awful lot of photographic paper or films or anything of that sort but we managed to keep the connections up with what we could get . |
| 6 | And they are quite happy to put up with what I would term the inconvenience of going there and back each day |
| 7 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 8 | I told Debbie about the house because they 'd quarrelled , she and her father , and I was afraid that if she did n't try and make it up with him he would change his mind . |
| 9 | If you walked round the bishop 's wood shortly before you left Cuddesdon , you were likely to become aware of an elfin prelate hunting you through the shrubbery like a gaitered satyr ; and when he caught up with you he would say breathlessly , ‘ If you ever need a bed … ( panting ) … do n't forget I have fifteen spare bedrooms ’ . |
| 10 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I would n't seek him out , but if by mischance he should loom up before me I should waggle my fingers at him . ’ |
| 12 | If he thinks the doctors are giving up on him he 'll give up himself |
| 13 | She wants to catch up on everything they can teach her about themselves , because then she can learn about herself . |
| 14 | The ski resort as such is not down in the valley at all , would that it were ; rather , it is perched to devastatingly conspicuous effect on the side of a mountain to the west , up to which you can go either by car along a new road or by cable-car from the centre of Saint-Lary . |
| 15 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 16 | He looked at his watch and said , " If it was up to me I would leave in ten minutes . " |
| 17 | My mum used to dress me up for church , but if it was up to me I would have wanted to wear something tatty . |
| 18 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 19 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |
| 20 | He will in a minute , I 'll go up to him I 'll leave you to do that dirty horrible casserole dish . |
| 21 | Well I think you should because erm , remember it 's up to you you should know . |
| 22 | Well it 's you know , it 's up to you you can look at whatever . |