Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 2 | What we do n't know is what they had in common that made them end up where they did . ’ |
| 3 | A shout made them look up . |
| 4 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When the prophet Ezekiel was in the valley of bones he prophesied to the bones and made them join up together . |
| 9 | Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves . |
| 10 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 11 | ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's . |
| 12 | The thought of her tits pressed up against my face nearly made me throw up , and I had-to disappoint him . |
| 13 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 15 | For several seconds I do n't know what made me wake up . |
| 16 | ‘ The Ukrainian Peel sessions actually made me sit up and take notice . |
| 17 | That made me sit up . |
| 18 | My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs . |
| 19 | A sound from overhead made me look up . |
| 20 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 21 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 22 | The kids helped me pile up the slabs and we ‘ borrowed ’ a barrow from the house-renovators next door to transport the broken humps of concrete , via some wobbly ramps , to a spoil heap up the garden . |
| 23 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 24 | In return for free accommodation and a lot of my attention , they helped me get up and go to bed . |
| 25 | What sort of things about that phone call helped you make up your mind about the person at the other end of the phone . |
| 26 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 27 | What began as a hobby took over his life and though Joan did n't have the same initial enthusiasm , she helped him set up Woodstock Exotics in 1983 and now she becomes so fond of some of the plants she wo n't be parted from them ! |
| 28 | ‘ Oh-Dave-you-silly ! ’ she half-panted , half-laughed , hopping towards him as he retreated , holding her at arm 's length , but did n't finish for he let her catch up , caught all her weight to his body and kissed her passionately . |
| 29 | ‘ What made you give up your privileged life to join this man ? ’ |
| 30 | What made you give up education ? |