Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 2 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 3 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 4 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 5 | Who do I look up to ? |
| 6 | I 'll admit it was a weak-sister thing to say , but why should I stick up for Russell ? |
| 7 | Now your second question must be where do I get my information from , how do I keep up to date ? |
| 8 | Will I step up to the cottage for another bottle , or will you , or shall we go without ? |
| 9 | Teacher — If I put ten pound coins in my left trouser pocket and twenty pound coins in my right trouser pocket and fifty ten pence pieces in my back pocket , what would I end up with ? |
| 10 | How — ’ ‘ How did I end up in here ? |
| 11 | ‘ Why should I stand up to you ? |
| 12 | Shall I go up to her in the pub on Sunday I 'll say , hey Aunty Nora ? |
| 13 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 14 | er at three fifty , oh ca n't I go up with |
| 15 | How could I live up to them when I got home ? |
| 16 | Should I fill up with petrol just in case ? |
| 17 | Can I pick up on your comment , you do not see any upturn in any of your major markets . |
| 18 | Can I pick up on that last point Professor Lock and throw out a question generally in response to what you and Mr Donson have said . |
| 19 | Can I pick up on a point that you 've just made Mr Sedgewick and also points made by those on your right about exceptions and presumptions . |
| 20 | After he had driven away , Nails turned to Nutty and said , ‘ Can I come up to yours ? |
| 21 | Will you come down to me , or shall I come up to you ? |
| 22 | Can I come up for a moment ? ’ |
| 23 | So I finished up with T to the one , what did I start up with ? |
| 24 | Baby why ca n't I wake up with you |
| 25 | Why ca n't I wake up with you |
| 26 | oh that 's where I 'm going shall I nip up before you ? |
| 27 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 28 | ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's . |
| 29 | Often in American movies , the sentimentality , the insistence on ‘ dotting the eyes ’ and manipulating the emotions , makes me puff up with venom like a cobra . |
| 30 | As I chew and chew without swallowing , the Monster 's slobbering and sucky-grunting falls silent making me look up in alarm . |