Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 3 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 4 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 5 | Set down ten pairs of cards , pick them up in a pack and give them to onlookers to cut a few times . |
| 6 | I lit a cigarette , whose first jab doubled me up with an unmufflable bark of outrage from my lungs . |
| 7 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 8 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 9 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 10 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 11 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 12 | The teacher claimed that the boy put the forceps in his hand , but the pupil said Mr Harrison had picked them up from a desk . |
| 13 | I I do n't know dust them up with a a cloth and a bit of Pledge I expect . |
| 14 | I 'll catch you up in a minute or two . ’ |
| 15 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll beam you up to a point in space close to the centre of a galaxy . |
| 17 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 18 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 19 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 20 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 21 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 22 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 23 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 24 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 25 | The violence in him was suddenly frightening , yet it touched her inside , caught her up in a tangle of emotions too powerful to analyse . |
| 26 | ‘ You did n't know he was a drunken sot who beat her up on a Saturday night , did you ? ’ |
| 27 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 28 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 29 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 30 | You 're supposed to curl it up in a , in a erm in a brush when you blow dry it you know . |