Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just my personal assistant bringing me up to date on some business matters , ’ he added dismissively as he walked over to the other side of the bed , picking up his slim gold watch from a small table . |
| 2 | Clench your fists and bring them up to shoulder height , knuckles upward , elbows at your sides . |
| 3 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 4 | Bind me up with granite , |
| 5 | Pick me up from work about eight o'clock . |
| 6 | I would imagine so , yeah , I think , then you pick them up in year three if you want to . |
| 7 | Hence philosophical analysis can and must proceed by erm philosophical thinking must proceed by analysis , by breaking down complex wholes into their simple parts and building them up by construction out of these simple parts , a conviction to which Russell remained true for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 9 | I needed some change so I got two sausage rolls , I 'm gon na wire them up on microwave in a bit right ? |
| 10 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 11 | Chilean fishermen are killing thousands of some of the world 's rarest dolphins so that they can chop them up for bait to catch the southern king crab . |
| 12 | " I 'll chop them up for kindling . " |
| 13 | Receptor molecules spit out their neurotransmitters once they have served their purpose , and the cell whence they came mops them up for reuse . |
| 14 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 15 | Nonesuch reverts to its old function , keeping the University as a whole together , telling graduates what is going on in their old alma mater , and keeping them up to date with what their contemporaries are doing . |
| 16 | General practitioners have also found intensive courses in diabetes helpful in keeping them up to date and improving their clinical skills . |
| 17 | Yes , I believe that 's about getting pe , getting the lists of order , keeping them up to date erm . |
| 18 | She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking |
| 19 | Certainly , the best hope for more political freedom in some countries lies in opening them up through trade ; that is why America would be unwise to refuse China favourable trading terms ( see page 54 ) . |
| 20 | keeping you up to date with what 's happening at home and around the world . |
| 21 | Has n't Mrs Abberley been keeping you up to date ? ’ |
| 22 | She was shaking again , the image of the cat 's disembowelled corpse twisting her up with revulsion . |
| 23 | He had picked her up of intent , had followed her into this inn for some purpose of his own . |
| 24 | The family had just picked her up from hospital in Oxford and were taking her home to Swindon . |
| 25 | Alain was getting quite hot under the collar and Dieter seemed to be winding him up on purpose . ’ |
| 26 | It was so difficult to conjure him up at will now , to truly remember what he was like and bring him to life again . |
| 27 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 28 | As he holds him up in triumph , the lad piddles in his eye . |
| 29 | In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed . |
| 30 | He stopped beside her chair , reaching with easy strength to pull her up in front of him . |