Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Shall I pick you up at the same time as I did this morning ? ’
2 We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’
3 Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago .
4 The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century .
5 In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap .
6 John Taub and others at the University of California School of Medicine required subjects to sleep an hour or more longer than usual , by putting them to bed at either II p.m. or I a.m. , but getting them up at the same time — 9 a.m .
7 ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’
8 ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents .
9 ‘ So you can tap her up for a few quid petrol money , eh ?
10 What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ?
11 We 're going to put him up for a few days .
12 Now might be the time to follow it up with a few troop directions in fluent French .
13 A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing .
14 Well if they come round to ours this year I 'll invite them in I 'll take them to my basement and I 'll lock 'em up for a few days .
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