Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 31 | If he was more successful than me , I could say it made sense for me to give up my career . ’ |
| 32 | I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ . |
| 33 | All my subsequent attempts to find a mutually convenient time to meet have failed — mostly , I have to confess , because my term-time commitments in Oxford made it difficult for me get up to London except at hours when you were in Cabinet , or in the House . |
| 34 | All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session . |
| 35 | She 'll hang around the Earls Court guest house till then , waiting for me to turn up and whisk her out for a spaghetti . |
| 36 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |
| 37 | Traffic was heavy and this was no day for me to pick up a ticket . |
| 38 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 39 | ‘ And if we 're to outwit these giants , there 's nothing for it but for me to call up the Draoicht Suan . |
| 40 | Hilton receipts for Chris 's room and everyone 's breakfast : please keep for me to take up with them . |
| 41 | I just came to see if the coffee was ready for me to take up to Papa . |
| 42 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ So that 's why you waited for me to show up ! ’ he commented grimly . |
| 44 | It was easy for me to summon up this everyday vision , because whenever I sat on the toilet the hem was stretched between my calves , and if I leant forward it was always the salient object in my view . |
| 45 | The time had come for me to grow up . |
| 46 | There was no need for me to get up and prowl around while the rest of the family was sleeping because I could read all night , if I wanted to , and if I did n't get up until the middle of the day , no one seemed to mind very much . |
| 47 | This gives an annual opportunity for me to get up to dates with Fordyce Maxwell of The Scotsman , an old friend from my Berwick days , at the preliminaries . |
| 48 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
| 49 | Every time he stays , he misses the toilet and there is usually a slight puddle for me to clear up . |
| 50 | Now if I 'm the fund manager and you 've got ta deferred member , nobody 's gon na waste thirty years for me to pay up their pension , I wo n't be here probably in thirty years time er so they want the money up front . |
| 51 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 52 | And then I come down to Kerry all winter because it 's not good for me to stay up there myself all winter and I have got good lodgings here . |
| 53 | It was finally time for me to pack up my tent and vanish into the summer afternoon . |
| 54 | It was too early for me to think up a brilliant reply . |
| 55 | Large white daisies for me conjure up thoughts of warm summer meadows , the scent of freshly cut hay and the buzzing of busy insects . |
| 56 | ‘ Talking of shit , how about I skin up again ? |
| 57 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 58 | ‘ She was afraid of me going up there , was n't she ? |
| 59 | It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands . |
| 60 | Now the plays are dying and Father 's got the memory of them locked up in his head and no one to pass them to . |