Example sentences of "[vb -s] up this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 2 | He then looks up this time in a reference book to find out which lighthouse flashes in this way . |
| 3 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 4 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 5 | Going from the ridiculously sublime to the sublimely ridiculous , another visionary — this time very much of our present day and very well known indeed — shows up this month on Greene St. He is , of course , Saul Steinberg , Horace of the high-heeled , poet of the pot-holed urban scene , cicerone to the foibles of the national consciousness . |
| 6 | In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities . |
| 7 | Well you know where the , th there 's an old road goes up this way . |
| 8 | Finn 's father turns up this time , takes him away , locks him up and beats him . |
| 9 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |
| 10 | And Scott the rapier-slim rapper backs up this message by practising what he preaches . |
| 11 | Recent research in tumour promotion backs up this objection . |
| 12 | Well , the first book in which Freud explicitly takes up this question in the opening pages , is his book of nineteen twenty seven , er The Future of an Illusion , and his begins , by posing the Hobbesian question , although it does n't mention Hobbes , but , it 's the fundamental point he makes , that civilization goes against the grain of human nature , and the question he asks himself is , how does er , order , morality . |
| 13 | Isaiah 61 : takes up this theme , and the prophet cries : |
| 14 | He does not , however , explain why the causal influence of the forces of production is always , and necessarily , greater than that of individuals , and only takes up this point in a second argument , in which he shifts from the discussion of character traits to consider the role played by individuals of extraordinary talent . |
| 15 | The section on measurement ( p.67 ) where the difficulties with decimal place value are very apparent , takes up this point further . |
| 16 | And er to avoid a collision and in fact I think they did strike but I 'm not really sure , but to avoid a collision this one then goes over the other side of the road , picks up this Ford Orion coming the over way , rolls it over the bank , and it goes underneath the tractive unit of the artic . |
| 17 | Well it it perhaps picks up this point |
| 18 | The notion of the id , in the later theory , picks up this set of assumptions , and stresses their universality in all humans , and their impersonality . |
| 19 | Example 5 shows how she invites the children to suggest the colour to be used and then follows up this interest with a quite spontaneous sorting and comparison . |
| 20 | An old prayer to Mithra sums up this duality in his nature : |
| 21 | Bailey sums up this pair of purposes under the head of ‘ instrumentalism ’ . |
| 22 | Goodfellow sums up this area of law . |
| 23 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 24 | For me , Gattegno 's memorable expression ‘ the subordination of teaching to learning ’ sums up this tension . |
| 25 | For those whose fingers ca n't forget 1-2-3 for DOS , pressing the / key pops up this imitation of the original Lotus menu system |
| 26 | It smartens up this autumn , looking tailored and trim at just above the knee , or lean and layered for longer lengths . |
| 27 | It smartens up this autumn , looking tailored and trim at just above the knee , or lean and layered for longer lengths . |
| 28 | The issue of whether the US federal courts will sustain Berkeley Software Design Inc 's motion to dismiss Unix System Laboratories ' suit against it ( UX No 392 ) comes up this week . |