Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After gaining the necessary permissions to enter classrooms my freedom to follow up themes and issues discussed in interviews was very great . |
| 2 | But my mind conjures up images of how they know my secret shame , and are talking about me behind my back . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's why my nose ended up flat against my face . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and re-organise as best I can . |
| 5 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and to re-organise as best I can . |
| 6 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 7 | Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack . |
| 8 | Why do the starlings in my garden pull up stalks of marjoram and fly off with them ? |
| 9 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 10 | I was sitting quietly in my office tidying up records when a duty nurse came in . |
| 11 | It one thing to accept that she had no future with Harry and quite another to force her heart to give up hope , to stop loving him . |
| 12 | These villages were settled by colonists who were given exemption from feudal obligations to the local Croatian nobility in return for their willingness to take up arms against the Turks . |
| 13 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 14 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 15 | Her incentive to take up painting came after she read an article in the Sunday Telegraph about Brigitte Bardot , and , in particular , a poem titled ‘ Complaint of an abandoned dog ’ . |
| 16 | Without warning she towered to her feet and he found himself facing into her breasts before stepping back to give her room to pick up gloves and handbag . |
| 17 | He maintained the IFA 's statement resulted from its desire to speed up court cases pending against IBM and used the tired old argument about local opposition blocking further investment and thus hurting the local economy : ‘ Irish Base Metals are working with a major oil company and we have to convince them that Ireland and Galway are good places for investment . |
| 18 | The British government faces prosecution in the European court over of its failure to clean up Blackpool , Formby and Southport beaches . |
| 19 | Knowing he was greatly influenced by astrology , she persuaded the most famous astrologer of her day to draw up horoscopes for herself and the man she was betrothed to . |
| 20 | She and her daughter set up schools in New Haven and New York , where her daughter died in 1828 , leaving her and her four grandchildren to a semi-nomadic and seemingly ill-fated existence in America . |
| 21 | Conversion of NO 2 to HNO 3 therefore effectively removes NO x from the atmosphere and thus its potential to lock up chlorine in a nonreactive form . |
| 22 | Dexter was constantly surprised by her resilience , her ability to summon up reserves of concentration and energy . |
| 23 | Old-fashioned MPs , unlike the new generation who happily turn up at the annual conference , went out of their way to dream up family illnesses , unavoidable business meetings or urgent missions to Kurdistan to avoid these gatherings . |
| 24 | We stop the jeep for a few words with the Marines , some I recognise from a few weeks ago when they were on their way to take up positions on the coast , on the left of 1st Commando Brigade . |
| 25 | Since you arrived , ever since she picked up the … vibrations between us , that first lunchtime , she has done everything in her power to stir up trouble , including that episode in my office , and tonight 's performance . |
| 26 | Because of the specialist nature of the hospital , patients come from all over the country and the CAB spends much of its time chasing up patients ' benefits , contacting DHSS offices all over the country . |
| 27 | The European ( and Japanese ) unwillingness to accept this is shown at a theoretical level by their refusal to accept proposals which would have required revaluations , and in practice by their preparedness to pile up dollar reserves . |
| 28 | I also remind myself of the effect upon the plaintiff 's fathers career , of his decision to give up work in order to attend the plaintiff . |
| 29 | Throwing the conservationist traditions founded in the Roosevelt-Pinchot era out the window , Reagan ( and who can believe he was once the environmentally aware governor of California ? ) has declared war on environmentalists in his crusade to open up America 's natural resources to the developers . |
| 30 | His horse put up waterfowl and once disturbed a whole field of rabbits that scampered in panic towards the hedgerows . |