Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what sort of pay formula would you like to see them come up with ? |
| 2 | She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’ |
| 3 | I only wish Tata had lived to see me take up my place at Bedford College . |
| 4 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 5 | What we do n't know is what they had in common that made them end up where they did . ’ |
| 6 | A shout made them look up . |
| 7 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 8 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 9 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 10 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 11 | When the prophet Ezekiel was in the valley of bones he prophesied to the bones and made them join up together . |
| 12 | That 'd make them sit up and realise they ca n't get away with desecrating any bit of wild country they can get their hands on … ‘ |
| 13 | Well that 'll make them sit up and think that 's for sure |
| 14 | ‘ My father would make me stand up straight and sing the national anthem four times . |
| 15 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 16 | It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’ |
| 17 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 18 | The Logger 's helping them tighten up even more . |
| 19 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 20 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 21 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 22 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 23 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |
| 24 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 25 | ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's . |
| 26 | The thought of her tits pressed up against my face nearly made me throw up , and I had-to disappoint him . |
| 27 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 28 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 29 | For several seconds I do n't know what made me wake up . |
| 30 | ‘ The Ukrainian Peel sessions actually made me sit up and take notice . |