Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 2 | Too too noisy and dogs were keeping them up all night . |
| 3 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 4 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 5 | Jenkins took my arms and helped me up several flights of stairs , like a Boy Scout assisting an old lady . |
| 6 | Forgive me for keeping you up all night . |
| 7 | Phil Tufnell 's performances in New Zealand moved him up 13 places to 13th in the latest lists of the Coopers & Lybrand Ratings for Test cricketers . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been winding her up all day , ’ shouted Luke . |
| 9 | Someone beat him up one night . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't screw it up this time , ’ he said , turning back to his correspondence and entry forms . |
| 11 | If you go to a house and you realize that it 's only a very small house and it 's a very big van you 'll only pack it up that way because you 're packing faster by doing it that way . |
| 12 | But he woke me up this morning to wish me a happy anniversary . |
| 13 | You woke me up this morning I tell you Sid . |
| 14 | ‘ Rose woke me up several times during the night , ’ Laura explained . |
| 15 | Marc , cut me up some strips . |
| 16 | Just filled them up this morning . |
| 17 | We put them up one minute and the next minute they 're gone . ’ |
| 18 | Oh yes , my curtains have arrived — Heather just got them finished before going to Australia , and I put them up last week . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , he 's picking me up any minute , ’ Belinda answered Deana in a moment of daring wickedness . |
| 20 | Do you know if they still dredge them up these days or |
| 21 | You 're going that way Michael , put yours up that way one . |
| 22 | Hello there man , of course I 'm awake , I 'm eating my tea , ha you 're wrong , Russell 's organizing his night so that he 's gon na pick you up half eight quarter to nine okay well I , I ai n't had a shower or anything yet , I mean er everything 's organized I organized it all for picking you up eight quarter to nine , bless you , what 's your number ? |
| 23 | And of course I 'll send you up some cuttings . |
| 24 | Your Ma went to pick him up this morning . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I had to set it up this way . |
| 26 | I put it up that end cos I thought anybody |
| 27 | It is wasteful simply to flash the light into the air and hope to pick it up some distance away since most of the light spreads out in space ( compare this with radio communication ) — although this method does have its uses over very short-distances . |
| 28 | left and I cut it up this morning before you got up and I could n't cut it with the scissors ! |
| 29 | If they 're short of somewhere to put it we 'll send it up Top Valley Terry . |
| 30 | We said we 'd ring them up that afternoon to see what everybody thought . |