Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes me longer to stitch them up than to knit them and , strange as it may seem , I like turning the heels . |
| 2 | The Americans , in particular , were self-confident and well educated , and their solidarity was in stark contrast with the disunity of the United Kingdom representatives , who were attending as individuals and had no national body to back them up or to formulate a national policy . |
| 3 | The arbitrator 's decision is meant to be based on the other reasons , to sum them up and to reflect their outcome . |
| 4 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 5 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 6 | He needed his wife 's presence to spruce him up and to take both him and the cottage in hand . |