Example sentences of "[verb] up [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco made clear what those choices were in a " National Programme for Resurgence " which he personally drew up and passed to his ministers for action in October 1939 . |
| 2 | Then Robert Topping , the Conservative Chief Agent , drew up and presented to Chamberlain a memorandum saying that ‘ from practically all quarters ’ he heard the view that the leader ought to go . |
| 3 | Then she stands up and crosses to the other armchair . |
| 4 | It seems not , for Philip Swallow immediately removes his hand , stands up and moves to the window . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She rings up and complains to James that she has n't any money and she wants this and she wants that . |
| 6 | I was lifted up and lashed to a stretcher . |
| 7 | An alternative explanation , however , is that rhythms with a 24-hour period are received from the external world — but that these are picked up and transmitted to the body clock less effectively in premature babies . |
| 8 | Charlton was picked up and carried to Hewett 's house where medical help was soon to hand . |
| 9 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 10 | It could be picked up and thrown to the ground below , but this would be incredibly dangerous . |
| 11 | interesting as well as a er edible lunch er we 're very pleased now to start away the afternoon session and I 'm particularly pleased to be able to introduce Patricia Routledge , she 's an actress with so many parts in so many media that I 'm not going to make any further introduction , but merely to ask her to come up and speak to us . |
| 12 | You did it on me , gettin' her to come up and talk to me , and do n't think I do n't know you 're laughin' about it . |
| 13 | ‘ Us is in 'ere , Sergeant Joe , ’ called Ella , ‘ Mum told us to come up and talk to yer lady friend . ’ |
| 14 | The unpaid interest is rolled up and added to the total debt . |
| 15 | We went in December and most of the indigenous population had curled up and gone to sleep . |
| 16 | Apart from a daughter who was believed to be barren he had no other near kin living and in a state of acute depression he determined to sell up and go to the Holy Land . |
| 17 | And it seems a bit much to suddenly turn round when you 're grown up and say to the mother , ‘ No , you should n't be like that . |
| 18 | I have to own up and confess to buying only this one . |
| 19 | This was immediately whipped off by a waiting attendant who then passed it along a table for it to be boxed up and returned to me in the ante room . |
| 20 | Of course he needed to finance so improbable a research programme , so he sold his dragons to an Emperor , who had them minced up and served to him garnished with spit-roasted swallows ' tongues , at one of his less important banquets . |
| 21 | The mare started to track up and softened to the bit . |
| 22 | In my dream , I woke up and came to the office . |
| 23 | Killion stood there hiccuping until Lambert threw wine over him ; then he woke up and went to the doorway and started calling out . |
| 24 | Her new husband 's job required a move south , and in 1985 Marian left the practice she had built up and moved to Sussex . |
| 25 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 26 | Or would they inevitably break up and go to work with the experienced squads ? |
| 27 | The drivers , now cut up and veering to the Left , find voting for the party that has championed the self-employed harder to do . |
| 28 | ‘ And I 've learnt that you have to open up and talk to someone if you want to get really close to them . |
| 29 | Now EMF are fed up and want to be serious , spiritual rock stars and mates with Bono — and still on a diet of dangerous drugs and sex . |
| 30 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |