Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's cheered me up no end to be reminded that I do have work and a brain and something to do when I 'm allowed up again . ’ |
| 2 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 3 | The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach . |
| 4 | So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream . |
| 5 | It have fluffed it up a bit . |
| 6 | For my tuppence worth i agree with Triffic Brooking that it was n't a back-pass but Beaney should have wellied it up the pitch . |
| 7 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 8 | Allen hit the post Byrne had one cleared off the line … a win would have shot them up the table defeat leaves them too near the bottom … |
| 9 | have made you up a bed in the spare room I |
| 10 | A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly . |
| 11 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 12 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 13 | The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer . |
| 14 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 15 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 16 | that the Germans had tidied it up a bit and turned it into a garden . |
| 17 | Lou seemed to think she 'd have dolled herself up a bit before he came . |
| 18 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 19 | A strong performance from Lionel Kerr in the G3 Escort has brought him up the leaderboard to third overall with Ken Graham ( Toyota Corolla ) and Jon Joannides ( Sierra Cosworth ) rounding off the top five . |
| 20 | Actually I 've I I I 'm I ca n't do it now but at the next the next traffic I 'm going to liven it up a bit for you . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've always been interested in old furniture and I 've swotted it up a bit in my spare time . ’ |
| 22 | His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation . |
| 23 | ‘ That bitch has led you up the garden path ! ’ |
| 24 | Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall . |
| 25 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 26 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |
| 27 | Three so she 'd say , Oh you know mind I 've cut it up a bit do you you should n't it 's still a quarter still a quarter you have n't lost a bit of it but it 's still a quarter three twelfths is the same as a quarter . |
| 28 | The idea of the Sudan had followed us up the Nile like a rumour . |
| 29 | The Dalek Killer 's led us up a blind alley . ’ |
| 30 | I have always thought that the sweetening of the waters of Marah resulted from the removal of the iron by the coagulation and flocculation of iron/tannin complexes , the tannin being derived from that tree — though I think that he [ Moses ] would have had to have bashed it up a bit first . |