Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 2 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 3 | She holds it up in different lights and tries to con its meaning . |
| 4 | If you 're going to sum it up in one word ? |
| 5 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 6 | put them up in that middle one . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you could stop picking me up in that van . |
| 8 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 9 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 10 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 11 | No amount of dressing it up in fancy language or elegant commentating will alter that . |
| 12 | Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions . |
| 13 | It made us able to stand up on our own two feet , to sharpen us up in many respects . |
| 14 | I 've got a helicopter due to pick us up in half an hour , and the Citation 's on stand-by . |
| 15 | When these new factors are brought out by the informant the interviewer can then follow them up in more detail by a simple prompt , such as ‘ Tell me more about what happened when the old vicar died and this new man came who fell out with the schoolmaster . ’ |
| 16 | Nevertheless , we still tell each other our dreams and look them up in these absurd books , and still read our horoscopes — just for fun . |
| 17 | It was as if he had opened her up in some way . |
| 18 | Cos the key thing with Clare is , she 's don she 's obviously gone back doing a lot , but who 's gon na follow it up in three months time , to see |
| 19 | 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. |
| 20 | I er in fact you 've wrapped it up in one sentence . |
| 21 | And of course he could use it up in subsequent years , he could move some of this into a P E P . |
| 22 | Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way . |
| 23 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Thing ? ’ he remembered to say , ‘ wake me up in ten minutes , will you ? ’ |
| 25 | Daly invents new words , breaks them up in provocative , punning ways ( as with the title ; and therapist becomes the-rapist ) and plays on obsolete meanings , as with glamour ( originally ‘ possessed of magical powers ’ ) , haggard ( connected with witchcraft ) and spinster ( one who spins a new thread ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I wo n't set her up in another trap . |
| 27 | I mean you can re-dress it up in Freudian terms and say their unconscious did it , which is really a very similar thing to say . |
| 28 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 29 | It 's pleasanter than chopping him up in little pieces . |
| 30 | Be nice in the summer and just put instead of doing her up in all these great big snowsuits , you know ? |