Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 2 | An 'A'-Level Art student has invented a new style of sculpture … by wrapping himself up in chicken wire . |
| 3 | And then she 'd dose you up with goose grease , oh dear that the thought of that now . |
| 4 | their high tea , were n't bothered about high tea , but still , er then , they 'd have , they might have a supper because she ai n't been a work , their elderly , they perhaps have a good tea , the they , they went to bed at nine and they said if I was reading something , they said , you know turn the gas out when you come up and , there you are well you can see , if one landlady gave me egg for me lunch that I had n't had , they not , they were n't gon na feed you up at supper time were they ? |
| 5 | Have you up to date information about the perceptions that minority groups hold of your school 's policies and practice ? |
| 6 | Ah , I 've made them up into poster size . |
| 7 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 8 | Our boys made intense efforts to back them up with air support , but were much hampered by consistently bad weather , and it soon became obvious that long supply lines and determined German resistance were combining to bog everyone down . |
| 9 | Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether a ceiling is badly cracked because people cover them up with ceiling paper or tiles . |
| 10 | Top dealers are inviting big clients into their offices , buttering them up with expense account lunches , putting them into new ways of investment , just as a good stockbroker might . |
| 11 | BLACKBURN boss Kenny Dalglish takes his expensive collection of stars to rough and tumble Wimbledon today , insisting : ‘ I ca n't wrap them up in cotton wool . ’ |
| 12 | Soften hard skin on your feet with pumicestone then a rich foot cream and wrapping them up in aluminium foil . |
| 13 | He 'd better have a good reason for ringing me up on Christmas Day ! |
| 14 | Ringing me up on Christmas Day , I ask you ! |
| 15 | Oh , very often my wife goes out and digs one up on Christmas Eve and that has happened regular . |
| 16 | But , but i i i i if you went yes I mean er in a sense that th there are one possibility is to redistribute the land , and do that equally , but if , if there , there was not enough land to bring everybody up to subsistence level er I mean some were , the , the argument is there was n't enough land to bring everybody up to a landlord 's subsistence level . |
| 17 | Eve had said not only was she going to be free for lunch , she would meet Benny off the bus and walk her up to University College . |
| 18 | A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said : ‘ The two men tied her up with masking tape . ’ |
| 19 | People call him up for art advice from all over the world . |
| 20 | Of course he 's worth a lot of money , but you ca n't wrap him up in cotton wool . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I patched him up in record time by the roadside . |
| 22 | If you have a little bit , then they make it up wi' Parish Relief . |
| 23 | Thus the liner is effectively sealed between three rows of bricks and brings it up above water level , preventing seepage . |
| 24 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 25 | We heaved it up on hand winch , yes . |
| 26 | Gave it up for ordination training at Salisbury . |
| 27 | But it was his birthday , so he invented a hiccup in the engine to let him take it up for height testing . |
| 28 | litre turbo diesel , which gains refinements like electric windows to bring it up to CD level , mirroring a demand for refinement from diesel buyers these days . |
| 29 | Perhaps the man had picked it up in West Cameroun . |