Example sentences of "up [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me and Matt doing our own stunts ( good old Norman really screwed the dollars up for me on that clause ) . |
| 2 | Not that I 'm any good you understand — no natural talent — but I make up for it with hard work . ’ ) |
| 3 | Mario got the preferred equipment and Ronnie made up for it in sheer aggression . |
| 4 | If the throng was not distinguished by beauty or birth , scholarship or piety , it made up for it in sheer vigour . |
| 5 | He wrote to me before he died and I did n't write back and I just wanted to make up for it in some way if I could . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's the Manchester scene summed up for you in one sentence . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the Manchester scene summed up for you in one sentence . ’ |
| 8 | Have you got your hands sort of tied up behind you in that sort of coat thing ? |
| 9 | This week The Belfast Telegraph caught up with her in Royal Avenue , where the living legend was , typically , being mobbed by fans . |
| 10 | ‘ A Hollywood movie about two cops who do n't get along at first but are thrown together on a case involving drugs , foreigners , lots of fights and guns and which ends up with them respecting each other and winning . |
| 11 | ‘ Thanks for putting me up last night , Leith , and for putting up with me in that condition , ’ he said sincerely . |
| 12 | Tim and Lynne Littler caught up with us at this point and with little resistance from our party , insisted that we could n't leave Paris without a light lunch . |
| 13 | I do know that I 'm not going to put up with it for one minute longer , though . |
| 14 | I give you a number and you give me some other numbers that are tied up with it in some way . |
| 15 | You know if you did n't fill it in , they would act actually catch up with you at some stage and you may erm if you had exceeded the limit be erm you know you may be issued with a demand for a cheque for X for X number of pounds for overpayment of pension . |
| 16 | Aung San awakened a martial spirit amongst the Burmans , and the young men looked up to him with intense loyalty . |
| 17 | Through a half-open door she saw a glimmer of white and stiffened , nauseated , as she saw Melanie over Penry 's shoulder , her face held up to his in impassioned invitation . |
| 18 | It is not that racism vanishes — in fact it intensifies and violence increases , but most children start to face up to it at this point , and their ‘ inferiority ’ usually clears away . |
| 19 | Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often . |
| 20 | She looked up at me in silent supplication . |
| 21 | His brother looked up at him with mild interest . |
| 22 | There had been a series of photographs showing Adam with a series of women , each one more gorgeous than the last , and each one looking up at him with undisguised adoration . |
| 23 | She gazed up at him in stunned silence . |
| 24 | She glanced in dismayed confusion at the array of winches , then up at him in desperate appeal . |
| 25 | Lissa stared up at him in dazed confusion . |
| 26 | Then , abruptly , his mouth left her , and she gazed up at him in confused distress , her body still longing for his caress . |
| 27 | Rachel stared up at him in growing exasperation . |
| 28 | But at least she was safe from the man on the ground , who now seemed to be recovering and was looking up at her with intense fury as he rubbed the area just below his ribs . |
| 29 | I 've always liked chickens — the way they hold their heads on one side and look up at you with one eye . |
| 30 | As they approached the house , she looked up at it without much interest . |