Example sentences of "[pron] up [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 2 | " Fiver , I wo n't pretend that I did n't follow you up here to speak angrily . |
| 3 | I have to pay a visit to the wholesaler , so I could drop you off and pick you up later to bring you back . |
| 4 | When the snow clears a little , I 'll drive you up there to see for yourself . |
| 5 | I 'm not taking you up there to vomit in the Land Rover . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want no money from you , ’ said Linda , ‘ I do n't trust yer , Mr Cousins , I bet yer up 'ere to do thievin' . ’ |
| 7 | And when the rain stops , the beavers may have to build them up again to prevent the level of the lake from falling so low that the entrance to the lodge is exposed . |
| 8 | I saw now she was softening me up just to ask me a favour . |
| 9 | Miss Bedwelty then said , ‘ You asked me up here to give my opinion . |
| 10 | ‘ When she realised she faced death she said to me : ‘ God wants me up there to look after the children ’ . ’ |
| 11 | I pick one up carefully to look at it . |
| 12 | we 've said it , if we can accumulate our own pots and pans , we 'll be like before they 're there for everybody up here to use . |
| 13 | I 've just phoned her up just to tell her . |
| 14 | They used to let him up here to practise from time to time . ’ |
| 15 | Unsettled by the riddle , Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace . |
| 16 | It is high time Eubank put on another world-class performance , but opponents such as Gimenez simply do n't fire him up enough to produce his best . |
| 17 | All he had to do was wind it up again to find the way out . |
| 18 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |
| 19 | I bet he 's not tightened it up properly to seal it . |
| 20 | Pete apparently Pete made it up just to get erm get at her . |
| 21 | ‘ But do n't foul it up just to prove I 'm right . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 23 | The phone rings in the night , you pick it up only to hear heavy breathing , silence or a volley of screamed obscenities . |
| 24 | But no , there were n't any cafés here , only kiosks to buy drinks and snacks , and you had to prop yourself up somewhere to nosh them . |