Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stitched me up good and proper . ’ |
| 2 | There 's nothing worse than keeping something like that to yourself It cracked me up terrible . |
| 3 | The title itself was designed to pull you up short : The Heterosexual Strain in Modern English Literature . |
| 4 | He had picked her up half-conscious , and while he carried her to the hospital she had clung to him with a pitiful force . |
| 5 | also as well when you 're black and you touch it up black when you 're old you look hard . |
| 6 | One of you put it down there , no get him to write it up sorry . |
| 7 | When they 've cooled down a bit you can put them in your bed , warm it up nice . |
| 8 | buying old say a scrapped a written off Sierra you know , picking them up cheap for about a thousand quid from the scrappy |
| 9 | She fried a rasher of bacon , a sausage and a slice of bread , then cut them up small enough for Eb to eat with a fork . |
| 10 | Because if you put it up front first , what do we now discuss everything around ? |
| 11 | If they 're short of somewhere to put it we 'll send it up Top Valley Terry . |
| 12 | BEAM ME UP SCRITTI Tales From The Gartside SUSANNAH HOFFS ' Bedtime Stories U2 : A Classic NME Interview Revisited Hanging tuft KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION GALLIANO THE THEATRE OF WAR SHABBA RANKS KILLING JOKE MOCK TURTLES CUD BLEACH BANDERAS THE CLASH SOHO ‘ Chick ’ Out The Singles ALLIED CARPETS The Inspirals invade the USA |
| 13 | They 'll patch you up good as new , see if they do n't . |
| 14 | ‘ Turned her up proper . |
| 15 | Erm er we 'll look it up sometime erm affection with Tony . |
| 16 | Yeah so at least in kitchen you can clean it up easy . |
| 17 | We served them up corned beef , cheese , pickles and hot cocoa , and they threw it back at us . |
| 18 | So , somebody no doubt has got ta get up there to put them up wrong . |
| 19 | " So many clients have so much money to burn , " explained a manager of another dealing firm , as he handed round condoms to some six trainee dealers on his floor , " blow them up big " He said . |
| 20 | We used to mark her up special on the calendar ; and we took care to make a right good job of her : we took an extra lot of trouble with her shoes so we could keep her away as long as we could . |
| 21 | A glimpse of statue pulled me up short . |
| 22 | I 've marvelled at her cos as a youngster I never thought she was capable of doing what she 's done , and she 's brought them up fine and fair . |
| 23 | They pay you up front , no questions asked . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's not true , I 've brought him up Irish . ’ |
| 25 | I 'll cut him up small and fry him for the kids ' breakfast . |
| 26 | ‘ Might take it up full time , sir , ’ said Bodie with a thin and slightly arrogant smile . |
| 27 | Of course you ca n't ride it up trackless slopes of heather , peat hags and boulder fields — in fact you have to carry it on your shoulder as soon as you leave any kind of track at all — but it performed brilliantly on the rocky Land-Rover track back down from the hill . |
| 28 | Bagged them up ready , yes she said I 'll have some . |
| 29 | You know like taking you up high and dropping into You know . |
| 30 | His words brought her up short . |