Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's where they should be , but we can see them lurking up the top there there 's |
| 2 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
| 3 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 4 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 5 | Trevor was not the sort of fellow who said , ‘ For art 's sake have I broken up the bar . ’ |
| 6 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 7 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
| 8 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
| 9 | And then I goes up the shute . |
| 10 | A couple of grey and white winter-plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on . |
| 11 | I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one . |
| 12 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |
| 13 | go I pick up the accent . |
| 14 | I pick up the phone . |
| 15 | I pick up the phone again and dial the Home Office . |
| 16 | I pick up the bike and return it to the shed . |
| 17 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 18 | I pick up the gun and pocket it . |
| 19 | I pick up the receiver . |
| 20 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 21 | I know what a flea and a slug look like , I do n't want to be frightened to death every time I pick up the packet . |
| 22 | I pick up the paper and think about my father 's Social Security card sitting on my desk at home . |
| 23 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
| 24 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 25 | So prolific was my perspiration I steamed up the viewfinder , and I imagine my acquaintance now possesses a fine set of prints featuring the edge of my thumb and some clouds . |
| 26 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 27 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
| 28 | The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver . |
| 29 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 30 | Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there ! |