Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if you lie back on the cushions , I 'll just hook you up to an enhancement device so we can share the experience . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll pick you up in an hour , Ray . |
| 3 | The English House Condition survey , which the Department of the Environment published shortly before Christmas 1982 , showed a sharp increase in the number of homes now needing £7000 or more spent on them to bring them up to an acceptable standard . |
| 4 | Prestatyn had to rely on Nick Bradley 31 and skipper Chris Young and Mike Williams 14 each to get them up to an inadequate 84 . |
| 5 | The net swept them up through an oblong portal faced with irregular , soapy-looking tiles , into a concourse bathed in harsh amber light . |
| 6 | ‘ If you take as much trouble as we do in BP to get the words and information right , it would be silly to dish them up in an unattractive package , ’ Brigg adds . |
| 7 | I said I 'd pick them up in an hour and then drove until I found a pub with a Bar Food sign and a quiet corner . |
| 8 | Grumbling under his breath at the lateness of the hour , and the fact that he was missing an important baseball game on TV , the super — who appeared to be of Polish extraction — nevertheless insisted on taking them up in an antiquated , dangerously shaky lift . |
| 9 | She was just using the fact that I was desperate to hold me up for an outrageously high fee . |
| 10 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 11 | She took me up to an apartment and started giving me a blow-job . |
| 12 | Publication of the essay , presumably in The Criterion , would understandably have hurt Rowse 's feelings ; it might , at the same time , have shown me up as an impertinent upstart . |
| 13 | Yvonne wakes me up after an hour 's sleep and tells me I have to leave . |
| 14 | Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the windings of the great river ; and on the nearest of them , just within the bar , the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight , hull and funnel and masts , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor ( 5 ) . |
| 15 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 16 | As the girl played the woman dilated her nostrils and rose slightly off the piano stool , as if someone was drawing her up by an invisible wire attached to the crown of her head . |
| 17 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 18 | But he 's agreed to let Old Red fix him up with an appointment to see Mr Remington-Hart , which is sensible , as nothing sounds so truthful as the truth . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Lock him up in an interview room . |
| 20 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 21 | Erm is it , It 's not an atom but it 's You could n't break say a piece of uranium or into an atom , but you could break it up into an isotope . |
| 22 | The gunner looks through his optical sight , lines it up with an enemy tank and squeezes a trigger to fire a laser that measures the range . |
| 23 | In fact it has followed it up with an absolutely excellent study pack which has been very widely used within the church . |
| 24 | At least she had not compounded her remark by backing it up with an astrologer 's predictions . |
| 25 | So you remember them but they do n't have any significance because you do n't link it up with an emotion , or with a situation , or with other er ideas , they 're kind of isolated . |
| 26 | It was a great disappointment to me that when having set it up with an invitation couple or three years ago , about three members turned up , and I think that was very regrettable . |
| 27 | Lee Sharpe 's fourth goal in three games opened the way after seven minutes , Cantona rapped in a 45th minute penalty and Steve Bruce wrapped it up with an 88th minute header . |
| 28 | They would empower a new Press Commission to impose penalties for offences defined by the report , and would back it up with an ombudsman , chosen by the Lord Chancellor , and given statutory authority to enforce fines by court order . |
| 29 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 30 | I thought she might have made it up as an excuse for coming round to see me . |