Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Quite honestly — and who wants to celebrate becoming twenty-six ? — I 'm really looking forward to a long soak in the bath , and then putting my feet up in front of the TV , ’ she added firmly . |
| 2 | I watched the clock ticking away as I approached , and when I passed through the finish line I held my arms up to heaven and with my eyes closed said ‘ Thank you god . |
| 3 | I can tell you — I was almost propping my eyelids up with matchsticks by the time Ben used to get back from the office ! |
| 4 | Will I have to sew my children up in goose grease combinations ? |
| 5 | Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ I hold my hands up to England . |
| 6 | After a further few days I brought my suitcases up from London . |
| 7 | NEC is also said to be negotiating with various US relational database vendors to put their products up under NEC 's version of Unix System V.4 . |
| 8 | When Hilary cast her eyes up in supplication , he laughed . |
| 9 | Having experienced that particular chaos , she was careful to keep her books up to date , a simple matter of filling in two columns each day , ‘ Purchases made ’ and ‘ Total cash takings ’ . |
| 10 | While one can sympathise with those experienced types who would probably benefit more from putting their feet up on Wednesday night , one has to say it is n't every night you get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions . |
| 11 | She saved herself from falling further by clutching at a branch with both hands and then drawing her feet up to safety on a big branch . |
| 12 | This will require those taxpayers to bring their instalments up to date within 7 days otherwise they will lose the right to pay by instalments . |
| 13 | Two children arranged themselves in the first carriage , Bradford grandchildren with their parents up from Bristol . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Microsoft Corp is waging its own spoiling campaign and is going around trying to persuade small software developers to put their applications up under Windows NT first . |
| 15 | fill their hearts up with rain , their livers with rain , |
| 16 | In head office , managers are responsible for keeping their teams up to date with progress on their tests in their particular areas of work . |
| 17 | The Council has a policy now of bringing all its properties up to date , but priority because they 're , bringing the houses up to date will take some eight years , priority is given to elderly citizens and people with medical needs . |
| 18 | The advice it received from the firm was to bring its loans up to date , in particular the $18m credit line it had given to UMF which , PW noted , had consistently been trading at a loss . |
| 19 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 20 | when this lot goes out to consultation you come back and te to me that other people are n't putting their arms up in air , about the reduction in services , or what are preceiv or what are perceived , no hang on , |
| 21 | She stood up , holding her hands to her face , laughing and weeping at the same time , gasping for breath , feeling her heart and only finally throwing her arms up in joy . |
| 22 | WIND RIVER SYSTEMS PUTS ITS VXWORKS UP ON iAPX-86 |
| 23 | and I mean but the quite the majority of them er put their hands up for Paddy Ashdown . |
| 24 | Nigel Simpkins of Nottingham University , editor of the RSC book 100 Modern reagents , agreed that synthetic organic chemists ‘ can live without carbon tetrachloride as a solvent — in an academic environment I do n't think people are going to throw their hands up in horror . |
| 25 | Historically the transport business has always been a male dominated area therefore it may have been expected that the drivers would bite hard on their Yorkie bars and throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of not only having a lady boss , but one who had n't even got a driving licence for a Mini let alone a 38-tonne artic . |
| 26 | Sophie threw her hands up in despair . |
| 27 | When British Rail put 21 of its hotels up for sale , Virani bought eight of them . |
| 28 | Well they 've got the depot at Rochdale which services up to Blackpool and this was out on a limb . |
| 29 | Tom Conti plays Lucas Frye , a former spy , who teams up in business with a strait-laced ex-colleague Peter Duckham ( John Standing ) . |
| 30 | Sheldukher rolled his eyes up to heaven . |