Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I get us up in the morning now and , she said she said the temperature rises to sometimes a hundred and twenty in the summer ! |
| 2 | It might if dust never gathered on the old photo albums full of the ex and I whooping it up in Corfu circa 1980 . |
| 3 | on my own , brought them from Canada and I brought them up without any help from my ex-husband and I would n't of wanted it any other way . |
| 4 | And I brought them up on Monday night |
| 5 | That 's my pocket notebook and I keep it up to date , that 's another piece of equipment I use . |
| 6 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 7 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
| 8 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |
| 9 | Then Sam says something else — I do n't know — so I grab him and I have him up against the wall and feet are off the ground , and I said , ‘ Sam , I hope you know what I mean , Sam ! ’ |
| 10 | And you think , Oh what does this mean ? and you look it up in a dictionary wicked and you think , Oh |
| 11 | ‘ You get several colleagues and the latest British Telecom touch dial screen technology with all the market-makers ’ numbers pre-programmed and you ring 'em up at exactly the same time . |
| 12 | ‘ It was good of you to get in touch with me , Simon , ’ she murmured as he hooked down the loft-ladder and she followed him up into the roof space . |
| 13 | Her first major film part was in Grease 2 ( which flopped ) and she followed it up by playing Al Pacinos hard-faced , cocaine-snorting moll Elvira in the blockbuster Scar-face . |
| 14 | He hesitated for a moment , and she took him up on it . |
| 15 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 16 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
| 17 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 18 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 19 | And they bring them up to me |
| 20 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 21 | Half of the wine and they top it up with water . |
| 22 | And they picked me up in turn and gave me a kiss . |
| 23 | That was we were using that white stuff , you know thirty , thirty six ? off his hand where it had all dried and he rolled it up in a ball and hit me in the face with it , that hurt . |
| 24 | And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) . |
| 25 | He knew what they were thinking , and he sized them up in his very concise and perceptive manner . |
| 26 | And he hung it up outside his house |
| 27 | The great dragon was angry but courteous , and he woke them up in as mannerly a way as he knew how . |
| 28 | In this respect Ferguson thought that the Warner Bros film was a good indication of what could be achieved by Hollywood when it tackled social problems honestly and he summed it up by returning to one of his favourite points about Hollywood that ‘ even half a loaf on the national stomach is at least nourishment taken in ’ . |
| 29 | And he took them up in his arms , put his hands upon them , and blessed them . |
| 30 | I put the matter in the hands of a local lawyer , and he took it up with the magistrates . |