Example sentences of "[pron] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes hopefully yes , we need to get three points , and we 've got to get ourselves up a little bit further up the table and you know , get the pressure off us a bit . |
| 2 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 3 | Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth . |
| 4 | I , I , dropped somebody up a little bit , so there 's the one six double O four and the six eight O seven . |
| 5 | You stay right there , Rainbow , if that 's what you really want , and I 'll make you up a nice plate and we 'll pass it over to you . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm I 'm winding you up a little bit but no I mean there 's a little method in this . |
| 7 | Shall I hire a gondola and take you up the Grand Canal to the sound of trumpets ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 9 | But if you up the financial incentive to achieve , then that too might change ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 11 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
| 12 | Trouble was , he never would listen to orders , rubbed everyone up the wrong way . |
| 13 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 14 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 15 | I have them up the front bedroom window . |
| 16 | As an outsider , probably being the only Englishman in the quarries , you know I I think they were surprised , the fact that it was a local family , I think that 's what really rubbed them up the wrong way . |
| 17 | They do n't promote somebody that 's gon na shimmy past them up the corporate ladder although you could n't |
| 18 | And if you go , if you 're not gon na pick them up the next day . |
| 19 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 20 | We will encourage school to invest in sports facilities and open them up the local community . |
| 21 | ‘ So why has Madge Grimsilk never offered to run me up a quick ball-dress on the wardrobe sewing machine ? ’ |
| 22 | And it seems that if I go Steve , right , bring me up a dozen sweets and I have n't selled one of them well that would be |
| 23 | ‘ That slowed me up a little bit . |
| 24 | Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year . |
| 25 | The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform . |
| 26 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 27 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 28 | ‘ Hand me up the other bottle . ’ |
| 29 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 30 | ‘ Turn me up the right way , chief . |