Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When she realised she faced death she said to me : ‘ God wants me up there to look after the children ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Nobody rings me up that late . ’ |
| 3 | Exercise tones you up all over and as well as making you feel fresher and fitter , it helps you to sleep better . |
| 4 | He covers it up well , I never been as things wrong |
| 5 | he starts it up again goes oi shut the fuck up . |
| 6 | It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you . |
| 7 | ( GUIL licks a finger , holds it up experimentally . ) |
| 8 | It fills you up okay but runs you down at the same time . |
| 9 | I think brown fills you up more |
| 10 | fills it up again with hot . |
| 11 | Lets some out , fills it up again with hot . |
| 12 | He blows himself up so the snake ca n't get hold of him . ’ |
| 13 | that clears it up actually . |
| 14 | He still calls me up now and again . |
| 15 | If he just phones them up tonight he can get a ticket . |
| 16 | Phones me up now and again , oh yeah , I 'll have you . |
| 17 | ‘ I just do n't understand how planes work or what keeps them up there . |
| 18 | A cable car too takes you up over 6,000 ′ to near the mountain peaks . |
| 19 | Speed keeps you up there longer — five hours , maybe more . |
| 20 | Oh well , cos he phones her up then . |
| 21 | Well , Christine takes him up there if they come here for the weekend . |
| 22 | He keeps it up pretty decently , considering , but it 's all done on a shoe-string , it has practically to pay for itself . |
| 23 | However , he takes it up again , at much greater length , in his next book of nineteen thirty , Civilization and its Discontents . |
| 24 | Saddam 's War takes us up as far as the back-end of last year , but the core of the book is concerned with Saddam 's rise to power and his success in surviving the Iran-Iraq War and turning Iraq into the most heavily armed state in the Arab world . |
| 25 | He do n't have no tower himself , but Khor said he had like some socket on his finger , just plugs it in to some surgery-box and the machine fixes you up real good . |
| 26 | She lies on top of me , breathing hard , head on my shoulder for a few minutes , then she stirs , pulls herself up so that I flop out of her and her hard little nipples stroke my chest . |
| 27 | A loud determined knock draws him up sharply . |
| 28 | Oh yeah Amy has to stay until half past cos her mum picks them up then . |
| 29 | JustText can read text files from any word processor , it even tidies them up slightly as it does it , and there is a utility to read MacWrite files but within limits . |
| 30 | I mean you 've got to try and keep yourself afloat , and then even that 's not going to help you , if nobody comes along and picks you up either , so I mean that But I mean I I did n't Oh well I Suppose I could say I gave up hope a few times but obviously if you s The struggle to survive comes through in the long run , and I mean it 's it 's not easy to give up hope , |