Example sentences of "[pron] up [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred I am worried with all that money you wo n't lose your head , there are a lot of clever dishonest people ( she means women , he said ) about these days , I brought you up as well as I could and if you do wrong it 's the same as if I did . |
| 2 | I 've kept you up late enough as it is . ’ |
| 3 | In the wild , an owl would find shelter if it was too windy , closing itself up as tightly as possible . |
| 4 | She 'd never liked them much ; in fact she had only kept them up so long because Mary Connon long ago , almost on her first visit to the house , had been openly patronizing about them . |
| 5 | The ash-fall which buried Pompeii and the mudflow which covered Herculaneum , however , are first-class examples of two major kinds of volcanic phenomena , which have been repeated scores of times on different volcanoes in different parts of the world and we will be following them up more closely when we come to a detailed consideration of the mechanisms of eruptions . |
| 6 | back issues have turned out some previous lectures but you can pick them up afterwards rather than now . |
| 7 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 8 | As they came out of service , they were driven to Mitcham Road depôt for Cohen 's men to break them up as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 10 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 11 | and I stuck it up here then when it comes through , they brought the car on the Tuesday |
| 12 | John Giacobbi sums it up quite nicely when he portrays the average A&Rs as narrow-minded lemmings worried about job security . |
| 13 | Well if the phone 's next to me you pick it up fairly quickly after it gives it 's first beep do n't you ? |
| 14 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll get flung off in a minute , but keep it up as long as possible . ’ |
| 16 | Once the umbilical cord has broken , the stump should be dusted or sprayed with antibiotic to dry it up as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | ‘ I want you to recall the label of said underpants , summon it up as fully as you possibly can . |
| 18 | So would you mind describing how you got it up there again cos I thought it was quite a good story . |
| 19 | Dr. John Whitcomb , professor of Theology and Old Testament at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake , Indiana , summed it up very well when on page 52 of his book ‘ The Early Earth ’ , he wrote , ‘ the testimony of an honest evolutionist could be expressed in terms of Hebrews 11:3 as follows , ‘ By faith , I , an evolutionist , understand that the worlds were not framed by the word of any god , so that what is seen has indeed been made out of previously existing and less complex visible things , by purely natural processes through billions of years ’ . ’ |
| 20 | No it 's okay not to worry , do n't worry about it , it 's alright , we 'll come and pick it up then so if we come any time after sort of tomorrow brilliant , that 's great , thanks every so much for your help , bye . |
| 21 | Tell you what she 's living it up more now than she did before ! |
| 22 | 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 . |