Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |
| 2 | Then pulling himself up to a great height , he went on . |
| 3 | He gradually built himself up to a third championship in 1984 , when he emerged champion by just half a point from his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in one of the sport 's closest battles . |
| 4 | That was with a Russian rifle ; then he blew himself up with a Russian grenade . |
| 5 | Australian Daryl Beattie , 23 , covering for Gardner , set himself up for a top-three finish at the first attempt as a factory-supported rider . |
| 6 | Iggy Pop handled the first of four keynote speeches with admirable aplomb , setting himself up for a neat career in stand-up comedy after this rock 'n' roll malarkey is over . |
| 7 | He groaned in agony as he pushed himself up into a kneeling position . |
| 8 | A correspondent for Cornhill Magazine , who claimed that in order to gain an inside understanding of ‘ The Science of Garotting ’ he had visited an experienced convict in his cell and offered himself up as a guinea-pig victim , described the main elements of this ‘ most inclement ruffianism that ever disgraced a nineteenth century ’ . |
| 9 | Ron Rooney objects to Dr Mitchell setting himself up as a moral censor ( Chem . |
| 10 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 11 | Leftwich moved to London and set himself up as a wholesale confectioner , with outlets in Fleet Street and Kingston upon Thames . |
| 12 | ‘ Another particularly odious corruption is the scholar who sets himself up as a unique authority on a certain painter , with the specific knowledge that , in cornering the market , his opinion will be essential for anyone dealing with works by that artist . |
| 13 | He set himself up as a one-man cult . |
| 14 | Uplift yourself from your lower self , even as an elephant draws himself up from a muddy swamp . |
| 15 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 17 | A voice from the front of the column shouted , ‘ Piper , at Achnacarry and in England you wake us up with your bagpipes ; here in France we wake you up with a hot dinner at the last minute . ’ |
| 18 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 19 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 20 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 21 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |
| 22 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 23 | On July 12 , 1989 , the Grey Panthers , formerly a group of some 25,000 members within the Greens reflecting the interests of older citizens , split away and set itself up as a new political party called the Greys ( die Grauen ) . |
| 24 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 25 | The supreme example of spiny defence is shown by the porcupine fish , a small inflatable creature that can puff itself up into a prickly sphere , either with an intake of water when under the surface , or with air when it has been caught and removed from the sea . |
| 26 | Local legend said that the animal used these to hang itself up from a low-hanging branch of a tree at night . |
| 27 | So we 're trying to bring everyone up to a certain level in certain selected topics — aspects of mechanics , heat , wave motion . |
| 28 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 29 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |
| 30 | He brings some out , we stew them up to a dark amber and sit sipping . |