Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [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 The Logger 's helping them tighten up even more .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six .
21 Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves .
22 It very nearly made me give up the entire project .
23 ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's .
24 The thought of her tits pressed up against my face nearly made me throw up , and I had-to disappoint him .
25 ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says .
26 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 ’ .
27 For several seconds I do n't know what made me wake up .
28 ‘ The Ukrainian Peel sessions actually made me sit up and take notice .
29 That made me sit up .
30 My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs .
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