Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 3 | A voice from the front of the column shouted , ‘ Piper , at Achnacarry and in England you wake us up with your bagpipes ; here in France we wake you up with a hot dinner at the last minute . ’ |
| 4 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 5 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 6 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 7 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |
| 8 | He brings some out , we stew them up to a dark amber and sit sipping . |
| 9 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 12 | Fortunately , the high camp of ‘ Goldfinger ’ , ‘ The World We Knew ’ and Brazil ’ set them up for a storming end . |
| 13 | Fortunately , the high camp of ‘ Goldfinger ’ , ‘ The World We Knew ’ and Brazil ’ set them up for a storming end . |
| 14 | And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
| 17 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 18 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 19 | In the second half , Swindon were again on top whilst Maclaren fired them up with a free kick . |
| 20 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 21 | And do n't forget the fellow who saved all his apple pips and crunched them up as a special treat ( apple-pip kernels , like those of plum , peach and apricot , contain tiny quantities of cyanide ) : he died . |
| 22 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 23 | Many people carry out interviews and write them up from a social point of view . |
| 24 | The better nurserymen pride themselves on their packing , so much so that they often advise you to leave the plants in the packing when planting is delayed , and to lay them up in a cool garage or shed . |
| 25 | These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass . |
| 26 | She saw him crumple them up in a sudden burst of impatience , and fling them across the parade . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 29 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 30 | Finally , my old friend Alistair Sampson set me up with a cheerful office over his shop in the Brompton Road , where I am gathering stock and beginning life again . |