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Example sentences of "up [prep] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The bloke has lost all respect from me — and fuck knows have I stood up for him in the past .
2	You remember how Rosamund Coldharbour set you up for him in the matter of typing that sermon ? ’
3	The invasion of Panama , curiously summed up for her in the shape of Chinook helicopters , had served as a convenient diversion .
4	Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ?
5	We 've got to clean this up for you for the weekend .
6	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 .
7	cos you get fed up of them in the end
8	When the car goes wrong , who ends up underneath it in the snow ?
9	He shook his head , leaning back slightly , watching as she drew one shapely leg up beneath her on the chair .
10	It was Rose , panting up behind her along the cinder track .
11	Ranald went up with her to the shieling , carrying a pot with charcoal burning in it .
12	A man caught up with her on the pavement and for a moment she stared at him blankly .
13	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 ?
14	So there 's classic sort of stories about organisation where the the er president of the organisation asks somebody to investigate something and that gets translated by the vice president into sort of rather more hostile sort of thing and basically it ends up with somebody at the bottom of the pile having their ass kicked or whatever because it 's been translated , or mis- translated down , okay ?
15	It 's very hard , I am finding it hard to keep up with them at the moment .
16	Quelle horreur : many 's the time I have found myself torn between throwing people like him out and putting up with them for the sake of the cash-till .
17	Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer .
18	‘ We 're doing them a favour because legislation will catch up with them in the end .
19	She caught up with him beside the telephone .
20	There was no way I could hope to keep up with him through the tunnel ( a route I highly recommend if you want to lose a tail ) as there were just too many imponderable lane changes and toll booth stops , so I U-turned where I should n't and headed back .
21	So now I have to put up with him on the boat .
22	Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub .
23	Morton caught up with him at the crossroads .
24	I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle .
25	Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you .
26	Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series .
27	Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you .
28	To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell .
29	Erm , like if you get the money , spend it , I always spend my money on loads of shit and I end up with nothing at the end of the day .
30	He was quite prepared to hail this as a ‘ great film ’ , for if critics were prepared to lavish that term ‘ on any half-chewed jumble of stills that comes in from abroad , then I am in favour of loosening up with it on the home front ’ .