Example sentences of "[pron] up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I , John 's put his up three times since . |
| 2 | He continued in this vein for a couple of minutes , tripping himself up several times . |
| 3 | And of course I 'll send you up some cuttings . |
| 4 | In a little while the waiter was back , bowing , smiling , leading them up two flights of steps then through to a table at the centre of the house . |
| 5 | Do you know if they still dredge them up these days or |
| 6 | Nigel bought a pulley , and the offending object was banished — hoisted skywards , where it hung immobile except when lowered , which became mainly for the amusement of visiting children who nevertheless were informed that any bad behaviour would be punished by hauling them up twenty-five feet into space and leaving them . |
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| 8 | Maté showed me up two flights of stairs to a windowless room where a uniformed nurse awaited us . |
| 9 | He 's been calling me up all hours of the day and night complaining about you guys especially Steve . |
| 10 | Jenkins took my arms and helped me up several flights of stairs , like a Boy Scout assisting an old lady . |
| 11 | ‘ Rose woke me up several times during the night , ’ Laura explained . |
| 12 | Marc , cut me up some strips . |
| 13 | I do n't like to have runners to out and get me meals , I do n't like to call down to room service and ask them to bring me up some cigarettes — it 's just not normal . |
| 14 | Phones him up two minutes past three I 'm gon na try and get the three o'clock train ! |
| 15 | Phil Tufnell 's performances in New Zealand moved him up 13 places to 13th in the latest lists of the Coopers & Lybrand Ratings for Test cricketers . |
| 16 | These batting performances move him up three places , to 41 , on the C&L list . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Party Politics , known as an equine giant in racing circles because of his massive size , was cruising when he took it up four fences from home , and winning jockey Carl Llewellyn later admitted that his chief concern at that stage had been striking the front too early . |
| 19 | Rushing to buy the dollar ( mainly by selling D-marks ) to cover their dollar loans , they pushed it up four pfennigs within an hour . |
| 20 | Nigel had been a very heavy smoker but had given it up eight years earlier , as had I. |
| 21 | FERGIE 'S invitation to join the Queen for Christmas will see her banished to a lonely farmhouse while the rest of the royal family whoop it up two miles away at Sandringham . |
| 22 | If you go in , look at the magnificent staircase and follow it up two floors to enjoy not only the staircase itself , with its figures by Braun , but the frescos by C. Carlone . |
| 23 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 24 | He led us up four flights of dark , narrow stairs , before disappearing up a rickety ladder out on to the roof . |