Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | about bringing it up in the next erm meeting . |
| 2 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 3 | Yes , I mean I do n't think there 's a problem about opening it up to them except their meetings traditionally are in the early morning |
| 4 | Then there was the ship 's agent who made a run for it in his car , guessing we would search his house after picking him up with some uncustomed goods . |
| 5 | Nottingham Crown Court has been hearing allegations that a taxi driver raped a lesbian passenger after picking her up from a nightclub . |
| 6 | Short-term memory is the phenomenon by which we can remember a telephone number long enough after looking it up to be able to dial it . |
| 7 | His cap 's on the floor in front of him and I think about picking it up for him , cos maybe if he 's blind he do n't know he 's dropped it . |
| 8 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
| 9 | You should , we told you you should of had a little dog like ours and it could of ripped them up for ya . |
| 10 | Your mother , abandoned by your unknown father , had the job of bringing you up on her own . |
| 11 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 12 | Cycle parking is actually I wish they 'd actually pay a bit more places to actually put your bike and you did n't have to sort of tie it up to some lamppost or something |
| 13 | If they thought it was that bad they would of picked it up on the M O T would n't they ? |
| 14 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 15 | This is the strategy employed by strangers who are fearful of the cat 's claws and have to find some way of picking it up without being attacked . |
| 16 | No amount of dressing it up in fancy language or elegant commentating will alter that . |
| 17 | I took the precaution of looking it up in case — ’ |
| 18 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 19 | Of course it is easy to look back now and say , well , would anyone have noticed if I had left my shoes lying around the changing room instead of buckling them up inside my satchel when I changed into my gym kit for classes with the Butcher ? |
| 20 | There was also a Corporal of the week — Vigno — and his duties included the more mundane tasks of getting us up in the mornings and making sure that the rooms were kept clean . |
| 21 | But it was certainly the Romans who first thought of splitting it up into units of measurement . |
| 22 | Red , orange , green — they sort of fill me up with colours . |
| 23 | There 's no danger of mixing you up with the mystery man from Pepe 's . ’ |
| 24 | Be nice in the summer and just put instead of doing her up in all these great big snowsuits , you know ? |
| 25 | Finishing her coffee , she collected some leaflets from the hall table , and , with the intention of taking them up to her room to read , returned to the lounge to say goodnight — a plan instantly foiled by Feargal 's mother , who seemed to have shed her vagueness , along with her daughter , who had disappeared , and patted the seat beside her in silent invitation . |
| 26 | And then I 'd have the joy of taking it up to Uncle Jonathan to get a new signature and of course he 'd know that something had gone wrong and then he 'd |
| 27 | But they often make the mistake of putting them up at crusades when they are only likely to be preaching their simple message to the converted . |
| 28 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 29 | They 're in the process of putting it up to two . |
| 30 | I mean he would of put it up for sale knowing that you wanted to get somewhere between you , knowing that the house market is as it is |