Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've had all this trauma about you know , cos I do you , where do you want the he said well do n't see much of daddy or nan and granddad and nana and granddad said they moved in on Christmas Day stay here and Rachael and Steven would n't come up , stay here on Christmas Day , it 's quite likely , quite likely to go with daddy he said but , in many ways I he said I know what we can do is when we send up the chimney we could put nanny 's address , nanny 's address on it , shall we ? |
| 2 | On this last day I want to sum up the things we have discussed . |
| 3 | Having declared the new music to be — incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics ' , Nietzsche at once went on to sum up the task he saw before him : " the thing above all is to get beyond Lessing 's Laocoon " . |
| 4 | That 's where they should be , but we can see them lurking up the top there there 's |
| 5 | Neither of those sums of course has to be taken into account in any of the mathematics which now have to be done to total up the awards which I would make . |
| 6 | We also ‘ drowned male kittens , beat up the man who came to read the meter , and held covens where we stuck pins in male voodoo dollies ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ You are a success to them if you fit in with the culture , particularly when they have gone thousands of miles and built up the clubs themselves . |
| 8 | In fury , Richmann threw Carrefour aside , and snatched up the gun which had skittered across the floor . |
| 9 | feeling as it were ready to come up the way you were swallowing it you could feel it . |
| 10 | Build up the time you spend in the sun slowly — start with 10 minutes and increase gradually . |
| 11 | The Watchmaker , having wound up the watch he had made , had retired elsewhere , presumably for contemplation . |
| 12 | Julia Swift , author of 12 Steps To Beautiful Breasts ( Thorsons ) , replied : ‘ Breasts are just fatty tissue , but toning up the muscles which lie underneath and around does improve a profile . |
| 13 | If we mess up the printing we 've still got that , and we can come back to it |
| 14 | Do you want me to apologise for picking up the gauntlet you threw down ? ’ |
| 15 | Then began scuttering backwards and forwards like a small , frightened mouse , picking up the things they had dropped , clothes in the bedroom , toothpaste tube in the bathroom . |
| 16 | Er , you look she falls , er , two or three rush to her , the stall holder fetches a chair , they 're all round her his son 's picking up the bit she slipped on . |
| 17 | Picking up the shot he crouched low at the back of the throwing circle — he was obviously going to put every last gram of effort into preserving his reputation . |
| 18 | Picking up the glass he put it to her mouth . |
| 19 | Alexei glanced idly down , and he saw that a company of troopers of the guard — C'zaki by their dress , under the command of a Yek officer — were marching up from the direction of the gate , picking up the sentries who had completed their tour of duty , dropping off the night watch . |
| 20 | Absent-mindedly , Jackie licked his own fingers and ran them round the plate by the bed , picking up the crumbs which he transferred to his tongue . |
| 21 | She picked up a brass poker and stirred up the fire which already burnt brightly in the grate . |
| 22 | Manville played up the empathy he had established . |
| 23 | The other night when I got in , he told me to put my feet up , gave me a G and T and dished up the dinner he 'd slaved over . |
| 24 | The task of filling up the blanks I 'd rather leave to you . |
| 25 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 26 | A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 27 | In some bureaux , the workers themselves have the task of writing up the JPR which must be signed as accurate by the worker and the bureau manager . |
| 28 | On the contrary — it uses up the time we 've saved with the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner . |
| 29 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 30 | Civil servant who cut up the boys he lured back to his house , burned the pieces , buried them . |