Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell Jack Dodson to pick 'er up for the fatstock market on Thursday . |
| 2 | It 's the same size as yours up to the wardrobe and up to the door . |
| 3 | And I suppose we 'd better go and asphyxiate ourselves up at the sulphur springs . |
| 4 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 5 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , we certainly thought we were climbing , the wife and me , you know with all that pulling ourselves up over the rock and all , and what with the fact we were , well , in a manner of speaking , how can I put this , em , climbing up to the top . ’ |
| 7 | We climbed onto it , put our arms into the shaft of sunlight , grasped the upper edges of the hole and , one by one , hauled ourselves up through a manhole into another street . |
| 8 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 9 | Let us tuck ourselves up in the light and warmth , and hide away from the night . " |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd better go and tell someone up at the camp that she 's come round . ’ |
| 11 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 12 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 13 | Instead of reassuring Stephen , now working himself up to a fever pitch of nervous excitement with the launch date in view , Michael 's superior manner had begun to grate . |
| 14 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 15 | After two months she loosened her grasp on the subject like a drowning man giving himself up to the sea . |
| 16 | He was content to give himself up to the occasion , similar to others he had described in his own books but none of which had ever seemed to possess the colour , the noise , the smell , the sheer vibrancy that was before him now . |
| 17 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 18 | Here Cornelius fed the motor car with the best petrol that money could buy and then took himself up to the restaurant to join Tuppe . |
| 19 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 20 | HAVE noticed that any old grandad who can prop himself up on a spade can dig better than I can , and it does seem that although women have virtues not given to men , men also have their gifts . |
| 21 | ‘ I promise you that we will have a long talk — and sort out everything between us , once and for all , ’ he murmured , burying his face in her blonde hair for a moment , before raising himself up on an elbow to gaze down at her lovely face . |
| 22 | He eased himself up on the pillow and examined the breakfast tray . |
| 23 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
| 24 | Heraldic had finally pulled himself up at the start . |
| 25 | But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self . |
| 26 | Her husband appeared to have something wrong with him — he was shaking as if shell-shocked and propped himself up with a walking stick in his right hand . |
| 27 | ‘ But that means , ’ Edwards began to explain , then pulled himself up with a smile . |
| 28 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 29 | He was very drowsy , and as I had no intention of letting him wake himself up with a conversation on my private life or anything else , I said I did not believe in mixing business and pleasure , and , as I hoped , the cliché put him to sleep . |
| 30 | Is my hon. Friend aware that while Derbyshire county council 's policies have led to the redundancies of hundreds of teachers recently , and while Derbyshire is the only county in England to have fewer policemen than 10 years ago , none the less the county council 's job creation priorities have managed to find no fewer than three posts at £40,000 per annum for former Labour councillors and Members of Parliament , the council leader has fitted himself up with a job at an annual equivalent salary of £40,000 , the leader of the Derbyshire Labour party — one David Skinner — has been given a job as a minder to Japanese business men despite being kicked out of the council for corruption 15 years ago , and his wife has been given a job at £23,000 per annum in the council 's bloated publicity department ? |