Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you like hiking because I saw a photo of you in your little bum-freezers , so we 'll take you up on the moors and then call at Harry Ramsden 's for some fish ‘ n ’ chips . |
| 2 | I 'll sit you up on the pillows and you 'll be nice and comfy . ’ |
| 3 | If there is anything capable of lifting you up to the gates of heaven , then that is it . |
| 4 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 5 | What time were you up in the mornings ? |
| 6 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 7 | One at a time I heaved them up onto the pedals , just in time to roll out downwind . |
| 8 | She ironed the covers and as she sat sewing them up round the cushions she felt her energy ebb and realised she was very chilly , and oh how the flesh above her knees ached ! |
| 9 | and getting them up from the cellars . |
| 10 | Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire . |
| 11 | Well that one really is I mean cos I see them up in the woods quite a lot |
| 12 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
| 13 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 14 | He determinedly left her behind and drove Sam and me up to the gallops . |
| 15 | And then , with a kind of war whoop , he picked me up under the armpits and carried me out to the choir waiting outside . |
| 16 | Two of the archers picked me up under the armpits and hustled me down the steps of the scaffold . |
| 17 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 18 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 19 | He hauled me up from the bowels of the villa , took off his jacket and placed it tenderly round my shoulders . |
| 20 | Later in the afternoon the sheriff 's men came back and dragged me up before the justices . |
| 21 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 22 | He led her up to the bedrooms , the floors and stairs wooden , fans whirring overhead in the steamy heat , mosquito netting over every door and window . |
| 23 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 24 | Possibly her father had earlier taken her up into the workings to show her where he was working ; even so it would have been an apprehensive little girl who made her way along that long tunnel . |
| 25 | Those previous kisses had had meaning after all , and now he had only to utter those three little words that would send her up into the clouds . |
| 26 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 27 | Alida hauled her up by the arms , plumped up the pillows , and shook them hard , until the dust soared . |
| 28 | He surrounded her and wrapped her up in the folds of his silence , his mystery . |
| 29 | Lock him up under the stairs . |
| 30 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |