Example sentences of "[pers pn] up in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 2 | I will pick you up in twenty minutes . |
| 3 | You can often pick them up in second-hand bookshops . |
| 4 | Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along . |
| 5 | In fact I think you can probably still pick them up in antique shops and second hand shops and probably a lot of people have still got some . |
| 6 | It needs to be full somebody said that you can wrap them up in these papers and they stay frozen . |
| 7 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 8 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 9 | ‘ Thing ? ’ he remembered to say , ‘ wake me up in ten minutes , will you ? ’ |
| 10 | Then I dressed her up in some things of my own ( oh , so much too big ! ) . |
| 11 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 12 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 13 | It 's pleasanter than chopping him up in little pieces . |
| 14 | erm equally if you ca n't get any significant differences between the five different groups of five people you can try and split the stuff up , once you 've got the data you can try and split it up in other ways , divide them into two groups and see |
| 15 | I mean you can re-dress it up in Freudian terms and say their unconscious did it , which is really a very similar thing to say . |
| 16 | Seems to me a very reasonable conclusion , I mean you can redress it up in Freudian terms and say their conscious did it , which is really very similar thing to say , I mean the unconscious becomes a sort of god in that case . |
| 17 | Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions . |
| 18 | The Bill could , with our support , be amended speedily , and we certainly will not hold it up in any circumstances . |
| 19 | Cos the key thing with Clare is , she 's don she 's obviously gone back doing a lot , but who 's gon na follow it up in three months time , to see |
| 20 | Not content with vamping it up in figure-skimming frocks with plunging cleavages and ribbon straps , we opt for the full dressing-up works , with long gloves , spindly stilettos , sparkling clutch bags and gleaming jewellery aplenty . |
| 21 | Bretz 's last paper on the subject sums it up in vivid terms : |
| 22 | And of course he could use it up in subsequent years , he could move some of this into a P E P . |
| 23 | She holds it up in different lights and tries to con its meaning . |
| 24 | It made us able to stand up on our own two feet , to sharpen us up in many respects . |