Example sentences of "up [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | cos you get fed up of them in the end |
| 7 | When the car goes wrong , who ends up underneath it in the snow ? |
| 8 | He shook his head , leaning back slightly , watching as she drew one shapely leg up beneath her on the chair . |
| 9 | It was Rose , panting up behind her along the cinder track . |
| 10 | Ranald went up with her to the shieling , carrying a pot with charcoal burning in it . |
| 11 | A man caught up with her on the pavement and for a moment she stared at him blankly . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | It 's very hard , I am finding it hard to keep up with them at the moment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're doing them a favour because legislation will catch up with them in the end . |
| 17 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So now I have to put up with him on the boat . |
| 20 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 21 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 22 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Listen , I do n't know what you 're up to now , but let me make it quite clear that I 'm only prepared to put up with you for the sake of the station and my job . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll straighten up with you in the pub . ’ |
| 29 | They catch up with you in the end . |
| 30 | Eventually , though , it will catch up with you in the form of self-loathing , as the pounds pile themselves on and you possibly curb your social life , and , moreover , endanger your health . |