Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 2 | Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it . |
| 3 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |
| 5 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 6 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 7 | Masklin swung backwards and forwards , trying to pull himself up the rough cloth . |
| 8 | I 'm I 'm winding you up a little bit but no I mean there 's a little method in this . |
| 9 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 10 | So it covers it up a little bit , but it looks like he 's gone bald . |
| 11 | Do you have to reti pack it up a certain time ? |
| 12 | I , I , dropped somebody up a little bit , so there 's the one six double O four and the six eight O seven . |
| 13 | ‘ My friend , Lord Auden and I cut one up the other day , ’ she says ( of an old mahogany sideboard ) . |
| 14 | But you must see that she says her prayers at night , Antoinette exclaimed : how else can you bring her up a good Catholic ? |
| 15 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 16 | But I was rewriting that to try to get the lines to work and all of those things , and they mess it up a little bit , which annoyed me . |
| 17 | could you firm it up a little bit with him you firm it up with I 'll talk to Scottish Homes |
| 18 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 19 | You stay right there , Rainbow , if that 's what you really want , and I 'll make you up a nice plate and we 'll pass it over to you . ’ |
| 20 | We will encourage school to invest in sports facilities and open them up the local community . |
| 21 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 22 | Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils . |
| 23 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 24 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 25 | Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year . |
| 26 | He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound . |
| 27 | Massingham followed him up the narrow uncarpeted stairs . |
| 28 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 29 | Right I 'll just draw it up a little bit tighter , is that tighter for you ? |
| 30 | ‘ So why has Madge Grimsilk never offered to run me up a quick ball-dress on the wardrobe sewing machine ? ’ |