Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll write you up a prescription for an antibiotic . |
| 2 | have made you up a bed in the spare room I |
| 3 | ‘ But I could knock you up a couple of poached eggs or a buck rarebit — how would that do ? ’ |
| 4 | Can I bring you up a cup of tea or something ? |
| 5 | ‘ This morning I 'm taking you up the coast to my house overlooking the Sound , and if the weather stays as good as it is at the moment we 'll spend the afternoon on the beach at Hornbaek , which means we 'll go right past Kronberg — we can even stop off and take the tour if it appeals to you . ’ |
| 6 | keep telling me they 're putting them up a lot in the budget . |
| 7 | DC Robin Lane leads them up the alleyway to the front door . |
| 8 | In Sydney , while they waited for a steamer to take them up the coast to Newcastle , the Goulds stayed with Dr George Bennett , secretary to the Australian Museum . |
| 9 | Members of Tendring District Council 's housing services committee voted by 12 to one to reject a motion recommending married couples should be awarded 100 extra points in order to move them up the queue for council housing . |
| 10 | I asked her to bring me up a pot of tea , and when she had gone , inspected the room further . |
| 11 | I asked Miss Matlock to bring me up a thermos of soup and a plate of smoked salmon sandwiches at six o'clock . |
| 12 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
| 13 | It 's cheered me up no end to be reminded that I do have work and a brain and something to do when I 'm allowed up again . ’ |
| 14 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 15 | Certainly Dotty was less effusive in her thanks when Stella brought her up a tray of tea in the interval . |
| 16 | He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this . |
| 17 | My father threw his calipers away and went to Charlie Hancock the chemist , who made him up a bottle of oil from an old family recipe . |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 22 | And I might , I think I 'll put in there , I 'll make him up a basket of goodies with erm a few telephone stamps on a card and ooh I do n't know what . |
| 23 | Here , take him up a cup of tea . " |
| 24 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 25 | A strong performance from Lionel Kerr in the G3 Escort has brought him up the leaderboard to third overall with Ken Graham ( Toyota Corolla ) and Jon Joannides ( Sierra Cosworth ) rounding off the top five . |
| 26 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 27 | K ! sdra squinted at him up the length of the sword . |
| 28 | We was there all one Sunday with a trace-horse , pulling him up the common with his slaughter-cart : dead cows and that . |
| 29 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 30 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |