Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 2 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 3 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |
| 4 | I I do n't know dust them up with a a cloth and a bit of Pledge I expect . |
| 5 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 6 | Jarvis has built it up through sheer hard work . |
| 7 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 8 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 9 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
| 10 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 11 | He , it says John Wainwright , there we are if you want to pick them up by John Wainwright , that 's where they are . |
| 12 | You assumed I would know to pick it up to like that and I grabbed it like that . |
| 13 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 14 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 15 | I mean , if the bandits on the way here were anything to go by ( ‘ here' , if you want to look it up in your schoolgirl atlas , is somewhere near the Mocapra ) why should the Indians keep their word ? |
| 16 | Erm , the facts are , and this is all in Trivers if you want to look up erm if you want to look it up in more detail , that males die more readily than females , from all causes that affect both sexes and some that even do n't and you 'd be astonished about , like for instance , you gather from John book on the myth of he heterosexual you 're not allowed to buy in this country , you have to import it from the U S. |
| 17 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 18 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 19 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 20 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 21 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 22 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 23 | The brief church service and the burial at Oak Bay Cemetery were not impressive , and Emily 's three Vancouver friends ate a doleful dinner in the Empress Hotel that evening , although Lawren tried to cheer us up in his own inimitable way , and we were grateful . |
| 24 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Not so for Locke , you will recall that so f the way Locke sets it up is a legitimate civil society is first established by a social contract and that creates a community , a body politic , which has a capacity to act , and I 'll put a little question mark over that shortly , erm and that community then as a separate act sets up a government which , because it has set it up as a trust , erm it can change or dismiss pretty well at will . |
| 26 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 27 | He has to do more than they do , and he has to keep it up for much longer . |
| 28 | She tried to hold it up against Constance who pulled away and said loudly , ‘ Yellow ! |
| 29 | In fact it has followed it up with an absolutely excellent study pack which has been very widely used within the church . |
| 30 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |