Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it still keeps my up at night . ’ |
| 2 | His up in Leeds . |
| 3 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 4 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 5 | ‘ We are gearing ourselves up for promotion on and off the field . |
| 6 | We have come all this way to take part in a major game , not put ourselves up for auction . ’ |
| 7 | This qualification can be taken as either a post-graduate or a post-experience course and is equally relevant to a young graduate starting a career in management or to an older man with some experience of management , who wishes to bring himself up to date with the latest practice . |
| 8 | It is scarcely possible that the most incisive speaker and planner should have had to drive himself up to Newcastle for a meeting the other day — and in a car without a telephone . |
| 9 | He gave himself up to police later that night and said he had drunk two cans of lager . |
| 10 | He later gave himself up to police . |
| 11 | A four-hour siege has ended peacefully after an armed man gave himself up to police . |
| 12 | The next day he gave himself up to police . |
| 13 | They saw a news item about the deaths on television and advised Gore to give himself up to police . |
| 14 | But the brother of chat-show host Jonathan Ross lived up to his crime-busting image and immediately pulled over to lend a hand and give himself up to police . |
| 15 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 16 | AN ARMED miner gave himself up to police yesterday after a nine-hour underground protest over planned pit closures . |
| 17 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 18 | Angel Cabrera Batista , a former activist of the Movement for the Self-determination and Independence of the Canaries Archipelago ( Movimiento para la Autodeterminación y la Independencia del Archipiélago Canario — MPAIAC ) gave himself up on Aug. 13 in Las Palmas after 13 years in hiding . |
| 19 | Jones , reeling from a £20,000 fine and suspended six-month ban imposed by the FA for his part in a video nasty about soccer dirty tricks , has to pick himself up at Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | He had to pull himself up with help from other divers who pulled his umbilical , and anything else they could get hold of . |
| 21 | Stepan Verkhovensky kits himself up with umbrella , travelling-bag , walking stick , broad-brimmed hat , belted overcoat and top-boots like a hussar 's ; and — Quixote overlaid for English readers by Pickwick , the White Knight , Mr Toad — he talks the language of ‘ high adventure ’ and the open road : ‘ there 's a great idea in the open road too ! ’ |
| 22 | Stich in time : Michael Stich set himself up for Wimbledon with victory in the Stella Artois championships . |
| 23 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
| 24 | Arty laid down his pen and geared himself up for argument . |
| 25 | A self-reliant smallholder with a good workshop could set himself up for barn-drying quite cheaply , connecting a second-hand electric or internal combustion motor to a suitable turbo-fan , and leading the air through ducts on the barn floor . |
| 26 | Henry then renounced the Catholic faith — when the Pope refused him a divorce — and set himself up as Head of the Church of England . |
| 27 | Eminent and learned the judge may be , but he can not set himself up as God over all football . |
| 28 | Setting himself up as God … old goat ! ’ |
| 29 | Simon bought up the costume store and set himself up in premises in Southwark , under the name Snogogram International . |
| 30 | The former Essex market trader , who set himself up in France four years ago , said : ‘ They do n't like the Brits here . |