Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 2 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 3 | Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it . |
| 4 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 5 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 6 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 7 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 8 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |
| 9 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 10 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 11 | He helped her up the veranda steps and , taking a large key from his pocket , opened the arched door and stood aside for her to precede him . |
| 12 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 13 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 14 | I , I , dropped somebody up a little bit , so there 's the one six double O four and the six eight O seven . |
| 15 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 16 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 17 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
| 18 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 19 | That stirred it up a b oh . |
| 20 | ‘ Shook me up a bit , that yesterday , ’ he said unexpectedly . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's what I mean , ’ she replied , and , since a lot of his aggressiveness seemed to have faded , she felt able to confess , ‘ It — er — shook me up a bit . ’ |
| 22 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 23 | Then , without another word , he hauled himself up the ladder , leaving her wide-eyed , speechless , and so confused that she wanted to scream . |
| 24 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |
| 25 | The last lay off ( remember after being selected for England ) shook him up a bit and he took time to get his confidence back , but again towards the end of the season was getting back to his best . |
| 26 | Ari had no positive idea which rooms Tammuz and Zambia occupied and was babbling nonsense to this effect as Lennon hauled her up the metal stairway to the gallery . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 28 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 29 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 30 | Cheered them up no end it did . ’ |