Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell Jack Dodson to pick 'er up for the fatstock market on Thursday . |
| 2 | It 's the same size as yours up to the wardrobe and up to the door . |
| 3 | The ascent on to the ridge evolves in easy stages , taking you up over a number of small , craggy knolls until you reach the commodious upper slopes of the Munro . |
| 4 | Dear Julie gets drunk and for some bizarre reason suddenly starts feeling you up under the table while we 're nibbling our cheese and biscuits , and making pathetic double-entendres , and attacks you outside the bathroom ; totally unprovoked , of course , and it 's all just the drink talking . |
| 5 | She 'll be lucky if she does n't have to hold both of you up during the service . |
| 6 | She usually pho phones you up about a month afterwards , you know there is a sort of a problem . |
| 7 | There was a way down , on iron rungs , from the Reading Room , and a way out , through a high locked portal , which brought you up into the sunless Egyptian necropolis , amongst blind staring pharaohs , crouching scribes , minor sphinxes and empty mummy-cases . |
| 8 | ‘ It was Faye , dear , silly Faye , with her ridiculous attempt to doll you up into the sort of woman she thought I 'd want . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd kill Barak and set you up as the fall guy — I believe that 's the term you Americans use . |
| 11 | What kind of friend hooks you up on a beam over a terrifying machine ? … |
| 12 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 13 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 14 | I 'll pick you up on the way back . ’ |
| 15 | I know you like hiking because I saw a photo of you in your little bum-freezers , so we 'll take you up on the moors and then call at Harry Ramsden 's for some fish ‘ n ’ chips . |
| 16 | Let the wind do the work and pull you up on the board . |
| 17 | ‘ How did you feel , ’ he said , ‘ when the monkey was holding you up on the roof ? ’ |
| 18 | I 'll sit you up on the pillows and you 'll be nice and comfy . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ See you up on the hillside . ’ |
| 20 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll pick you up on the Friday afternoon , though I 'll be in touch before then , ’ he said , and bade her a curt farewell . |
| 22 | It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway . |
| 23 | Next time someone cuts you up on the fast lane , pity him . |
| 24 | er I believe you up on the er the level . |
| 25 | and that brings you up onto the main Belfast road |
| 26 | A voice from the front of the column shouted , ‘ Piper , at Achnacarry and in England you wake us up with your bagpipes ; here in France we wake you up with a hot dinner at the last minute . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 28 | ‘ What about asking Albert 's to set you up with a really quiet-looking business outfit for New York ? |
| 29 | For anything up to £500 , this place can fix you up with a fashion accessory in a class of its own . |
| 30 | That woke you up with a bang . |