Example sentences of "[pron] up [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stiffened as he recognized a man move upstairs with a distinctive , boneless saunter : he had better send someone up to check the backgammon room . |
| 2 | He gave a short , humourless laugh , and levered himself up to investigate the hamper . |
| 3 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 4 | And what I mean by help out is that one of the documents that we leave er when we sign them up to take the product is a list that so that looks something like this . |
| 5 | I have brought them up to support the Conservatives , but they are saying they are not going to vote again next time . ’ |
| 6 | For example , we gave some a picture showing some batteries and a light bulb and asked them to show how they would connect them up to make the light bulb glow . |
| 7 | I was going to blast a couple and then string them up to scare the others . |
| 8 | I was shattered , but how could I defend myself by explaining that his hitherto unsuspected mistress had just rung me up to spill the beans ? ’ |
| 9 | We had to phone her up to get the number . |
| 10 | We had to phone her up to get the code . |
| 11 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 12 | Pete ran ahead and opened the big glass doors as he usually did and Mum lifted him up to press the button for the lift . |
| 13 | But , one of things that we are discovering is that when people complain about drafts er , we 've been switching the air conditioning up and down to balance it up to suit the individuals needs . |
| 14 | A simple mount is invaluable , and it is best to set it up to get the wing-tip in the top corner of the frame . |
| 15 | not so much in the earliest days , when US producers had not yet sufficiently geared themselves up to satisfy the demands of their market , so that British exports to the States were largely unproblematic . |
| 16 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |