Example sentences of "[verb] up [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder the Omanis are cautious about opening up their country to foreigners , including tourists . |
| 2 | I 'm not opening up our file to you , Bill . |
| 3 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |
| 4 | His tongue and lips and breathing rose up her body to her breasts , her neck , her shoulders , her ears , her stifling hair . |
| 5 | But social services chairman Peter Maxwell said last week the decision had been made before the council drew up its policy on gay and lesbian foster parents . |
| 6 | They met in Sion College , and , following some lengthy discussions drew up their list of proposals for church government and church discipline . |
| 7 | A slight man , he held himself erect and drew up his portfolio across his chest . |
| 8 | This was the point at which he drew up his application for the Mandan Foundation grant . |
| 9 | The prosecution was allowed to sum up its evidence in secret hearing as part of it had been given in camera . |
| 10 | Winston Churchill was to sum up his appraisal in a contemptuous phrase : ‘ He came , he saw , he capitulated . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If you had to sum up our philosophy in a few words , it would be : ‘ Do as you would be done by ’ , ’ says Margaret . |
| 12 | The Ego is constantly chattering about its fears , worries and doubts , cluttering up our head with thoughts that go nowhere — just in case we decide to think for ourselves , to question , to explore new possibilities , to feel our suppressed emotions , to reach beyond our old ways of being , to develop a new vision . |
| 13 | I 'm sick to death of them cluttering up my hall like that . |
| 14 | And it does n't tie up your money for long periods of time . |
| 15 | ‘ If you see me drinking too much , ’ she said to Beuno , ‘ you must tie up my throat like a cormorant , or I shall start speaking wildly . ’ |
| 16 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 17 | The rebels are keeping up their siege of several provincial capitals : Luena , Huige , Kuito and Menongue . |
| 18 | For while his victory certainly overturned the basic tenets of any horse race — he won because he was so far behind at the crucial moment — still he gained that victory by adapting to the circumstances which had suddenly presented themselves , by his jockey 's quick and skilful manoeuvring by his jockey , by jumping accurately and by keeping up his gallop to the end . |
| 19 | Zen suddenly understood that Bartocci had some move in mind , something which he was keeping up his sleeve for the moment . |
| 20 | for I was always keeping up my sleeve for sort of things we might do as opposed to R and M U have done |
| 21 | I mean I used to have a good go at keeping up your standard in my but er |
| 22 | And particularly well done , , for keeping up your diet with great fortitude . |
| 23 | Group liturgy can refer to two or three people gathered to pray , to a larger group gathered for a house mass — or a parish group ending up their meeting with an agape . |
| 24 | He did an eight month fitter/armourer course ending up his training with top marks and a corporal 's stripes , and then did several months ' instructing before being sent to a ground crew on a Bomber Command airfield . |
| 25 | THE 1980s opened with British Transport Hotels ( BTH ) still running around thirty traditional railway hotels ; with its Travellers-Fare wing sprucing up its portfolio of dull , old-fashioned refreshment rooms , and restaurant cars continuing to suffer declining patronage as journey times shortened and eating habits changed . |
| 26 | It has celebrated by sprucing up its Quality of Markets Quarterly Review , the first issue of which features an utterly gloomy article detailing the £350 million of losses made by member firms last year . |
| 27 | Jazz skewered up his hair with a few of Mrs Nicholson 's hairpins and the three of them shuffled and clacked respectively for home , grateful for the now emptier streets . |
| 28 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 29 | And if I feel like it , I wo n't just screw up your life with that stupid , lame bitch , I 'll make her part of the deal . |
| 30 | told his wife to get the doctor , and that sort of business in , but er imagine a man knocking up his shed during the night |