Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 32 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 33 | I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad . |
| 34 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 35 | It 's called the N tuple method is because the first thing we do is to take that image and break it up into a set of tuples each of N in size . |
| 36 | As he ate , he opened and closed drawers , he examined papers and objects on his desk : ‘ I 'll let you loose in the west gallery and catch you up at the door to the stock-room . |
| 37 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 38 | Companies generally take their guests down to Sunsail 's Port Solent base near Portsmouth in the evening , give them dinner and put them up in a hotel . |
| 39 | When you 've finished , you just tear off all your flip charts , and put them up round the room or something so people can |
| 40 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 41 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 42 | Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time . |
| 43 | He continued to carry her out of the gate to his carriage , and lifted her up to the seat . |
| 44 | She went straight to her jug of water and lifted it up by the handle and peered inside . |
| 45 | What 's the point of teaching something if you can go and look it up in a book ? |
| 46 | And do n't forget the fellow who saved all his apple pips and crunched them up as a special treat ( apple-pip kernels , like those of plum , peach and apricot , contain tiny quantities of cyanide ) : he died . |
| 47 | She took the paper napkin from her lap and crunched it up into a tight ball , dropping it on to her plate . |
| 48 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 49 | Go right round a f these the field and cut your first swathe out and tie it up with a a load of the straw that you 'd cut and bind it up , bundle it up and shove that in the hedge bottom . |
| 50 | What if he had n't left yet — she could ring him and tell him she 'd chickened out , and he could flap his wings and tease her but at least she would n't have to — oh , hell , here he is , she thought , and watched as the huge bike rolled to a halt and he switched off the engine and hauled it up on the stand . |
| 51 | Holly spoke the language , so he 'd better jump on an Aeroflot and get over there and chase it up with the Ministry . |
| 52 | We do n't just brand the cheapest tubes available , bubble pack them in pairs and hang them up on a dealer 's wall . |
| 53 | And hang them up in the cellar all night . |
| 54 | And er and they the the afternoon shift used to come on and I used to have to carry all these checks across then , the yard and take 'em and hang 'em up in the in the check-weigh on the pit top where they weighed the wagons of coals . |
| 55 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 56 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 57 | It is believed that one of them moved the regulator and opened it up with the result that the train was soon out of control . |
| 58 | I can show you hawthorn , beech , oak , ash , elderberry and sycamore ; after that I have to take a leaf home and look it up in a book . |
| 59 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 60 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |