Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I bring you up a cup of tea or something ? |
| 2 | Shall I bring you up a tray , or will you come down ? ’ |
| 3 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |
| 4 | I set you up a mini-orgy , a nice little threesome , and the minute it rocks a bit , nothing a mite of persuasion would n't put right , you start giving an address on the Greek verb ‘ to rub ’ . |
| 5 | Halfway along the path , I lift her up a second time . |
| 6 | ‘ If I find it , should I slice it up a little ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You know the answer to that , and so does Beryl now , though I wrapped it up a bit to save her having a fit on the spot . |
| 8 | She led her up a stone staircase into a small room where Brownies were sitting on wooden toadstools . |
| 9 | She made him up a bed on the high white divan in her living-room — not a heap of sleeping-bags and blankets but a real bed , with laundered sheets and pillows in emerald green cotton cases . |
| 10 | could you firm it up a little bit with him you firm it up with I 'll talk to Scottish Homes |
| 11 | But you must see that she says her prayers at night , Antoinette exclaimed : how else can you bring her up a good Catholic ? |
| 12 | So you perked her up a bit |
| 13 | Generally , he came downstairs to wash and shave while she was doing this , but today she took him up a tray so he could have his breakfast in bed . |
| 14 | Can you hold him up a minute . |
| 15 | Can we turn it up a bit ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 17 | They led us up a series of side streets to a post office near the station . |
| 18 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 19 | But I was rewriting that to try to get the lines to work and all of those things , and they mess it up a little bit , which annoyed me . |
| 20 | Well normally when he gives marrow bones I ask him to chop them up a bit smaller |
| 21 | I asked her to bring me up a pot of tea , and when she had gone , inspected the room further . |
| 22 | So it covers it up a little bit , but it looks like he 's gone bald . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 24 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 25 | He cleaned it up a bit and a scrap yard and it , and this thing and they were like hills and rock gardens , you know like |