Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hovering clerk at Hussey 's back was watching them narrowly every moment , as though one of them might elude him when he came to gather them up again . |
| 2 | As the most suitable to sum them up provisionally let us pick ‘ Face facts ’ , a roughly formulated injunction which carries with it its own punishments for disobedience , without any need to appeal to God , philosophers or the police . |
| 3 | The bird symbolising the yearning for freedom man has , his desire to pull himself up above and beyond the limits and discomforts of his own restricted world . |
| 4 | When piling the buttercream on to the teddy 's body , try to mound it up quite high to give him a tubby appearance . |
| 5 | I sometimes start an investigation by doing a bit of ‘ working-out ’ on the board and using intentionally ‘ messy ’ techniques to illustrate how useful they can be , always emphasising that they will , at some stage , have to look back at their work to write it up neatly in some form or other . |
| 6 | At first you will only be able to crouch down on the board , but as you get used to pulling down on the booms to pull yourself up again , you will be able to get lower . |
| 7 | Because as I say if you 've got to clean them up afterwards , the costs are horrendous . |
| 8 | Staff in local authority children 's homes are being given new powers to restrain young people in their care physically , and in some cases to lock them up overnight . |
| 9 | After 24 hours of freedom I knew no one was going to lock me up again |
| 10 | ‘ I realised no one was going to lock me up again . |
| 11 | for us to pick them up here I mean . |
| 12 | He 'll get he 'll get about should be twenty five pound but she 's coming to pick them up today |
| 13 | He was going to tell his mother and sister on the Friday and , to break the ice , we decided to go to the Fire Festival on Saturday ; he was to pick me up here at eight and we were going together . ’ |
| 14 | So if I mess it up then now , when you come over to pick me up later it shall still be messed up ? |
| 15 | ’ You have to pick me up now ! |
| 16 | I said shit , he must of come to pick me up so I obviously I apologise for |
| 17 | It is as easy for the sportsman to shoot me up here as down there . |
| 18 | It begins with a look at the various types of looms and how to set them up together with full details on how to operate each type , with hints and tips on weaving procedures . |
| 19 | This change will allow the Gallery to set itself up permanently on a proper funding basis , with the possibility of a number of options : it could move into public ownership , either national or local ; alternatively , a private sponsor might come forward and take on the entire enterprise . |
| 20 | I hope that got us through the little post-lunch siesta period , erm , we 're going to do another er , time management game now which will take about half an hour , and I need to split you up once again into groups , erm , okay . |
| 21 | I want to pick you up there . |
| 22 | So you 're trying to set her up then ? |
| 23 | You come up with me to pick him up tomorrow ? |
| 24 | It 's not malignant and he 's coming home , so we 've got to pick him up tomorrow morning and he 's smashing ! |
| 25 | If she went on this way , you 'd be able to pick her up soon . |
| 26 | It was the man in the grey suit who had tried to pick her up earlier . |
| 27 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 28 | And there was a move to set it up again in the late Sixties , but that got sat on . |
| 29 | The ruminant continually regurgitates food from its stomach to its mouth to chew it up further ( that is what a cow is doing when ‘ chewing cud ’ ) . |
| 30 | She left twelve pence on the floor and Bill put it in the cubby hole in the fireplace and Gary says whose is this money and Arthur was going to pick it up an'all , he says leave that he says that 's for Enid 's money . |