Example sentences of "[pron] up [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd say , that I 've set you up to say it . |
| 2 | and just hold them up to light you quite welcome to do so . |
| 3 | They 've got to a adjust the tie backs , they have n't put the tie backs up yet because they 've got to come down a bit , I just hung them up to let them drop a bit . |
| 4 | Ballantyne 's character , Ralph , even tries to wake them up to make it more sportsmanlike but Jack does not let him . |
| 5 | The psychopath theory can cover the Abbey and for the rest ’ — she shrugged — ‘ we can make sure there 's no proof Moscow 's got nothing but bodies and they are n't going to dig them up to prove us wrong . |
| 6 | I nearly lost my life again , when a lady picked me up to put me in the boat . |
| 7 | Yeah , she phoned me up to ask me what she should do about Beryl . |
| 8 | She rang me up to say she 'd be home . |
| 9 | ‘ People phone me up to invite me out and I 'll be like , ’ she puts on a whiny voice , ‘ Oh no , I 'd like to stay home and watch a video or read a book . ’ |
| 10 | The Lady Prioress had to sober me up to send me to Woodstock . |
| 11 | Er , she rings me up to tell me to ring her back up |
| 12 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 13 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 14 | I pick one up to examine it — then drop it in disgust . |
| 15 | Send her up to see me . |
| 16 | My eyes prickle with tears , and I have to stop myself from waking her up to remind her of my love . |
| 17 | ‘ It cheers her up to put them on , ’ Albert said . |
| 18 | It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat . |
| 19 | I would n't put it past that bitch to have set her up to frame me . ’ |
| 20 | She wondered whether to stay where she was , cold and tear-stained , and let her father find her and pick her up to comfort her as he did when she was small . |
| 21 | After dark he grew restless and they had to tie him up to stop him following the jackals which howled around the village at night . |
| 22 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 23 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 24 | I leaned forward , put my thumb under my lip and jerked it up to give him a close-up view of the long gash and the trailing blood-stained ends of the stitches . |
| 25 | He held it up to show me and the jar slipped out of his hand , rolling the remains of its contents onto the earth . |
| 26 | As I picked it up to throw it aside a line of small print caught my eye : ‘ Ivory tower for long or short let . |
| 27 | He looked back at her a moment , then reached down and took her left hand in his own , lifting it up to study it . |
| 28 | He carried it everywhere and if wandering outside put it up to protect him from what he called ‘ The Mysterious Lumps of Space' ’ . |
| 29 | Oh , so if you do n't , if you do n't call it up to edit it , you can keep changing it and it will still stay the same ? |
| 30 | all of that , I ca n't psyche myself up to yank it out , so |