Example sentences of "[pers pn] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You stay right there , Rainbow , if that 's what you really want , and I 'll make you up a nice plate and we 'll pass it over to you . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm I 'm winding you up a little bit but no I mean there 's a little method in this . |
| 3 | Shall I hire a gondola and take you up the Grand Canal to the sound of trumpets ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 5 | But if you up the financial incentive to achieve , then that too might change ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 7 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
| 8 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 9 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 10 | I have them up the front bedroom window . |
| 11 | As an outsider , probably being the only Englishman in the quarries , you know I I think they were surprised , the fact that it was a local family , I think that 's what really rubbed them up the wrong way . |
| 12 | They do n't promote somebody that 's gon na shimmy past them up the corporate ladder although you could n't |
| 13 | And if you go , if you 're not gon na pick them up the next day . |
| 14 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 15 | We will encourage school to invest in sports facilities and open them up the local community . |
| 16 | ‘ So why has Madge Grimsilk never offered to run me up a quick ball-dress on the wardrobe sewing machine ? ’ |
| 17 | And it seems that if I go Steve , right , bring me up a dozen sweets and I have n't selled one of them well that would be |
| 18 | ‘ That slowed me up a little bit . |
| 19 | Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year . |
| 20 | The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform . |
| 21 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 22 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 23 | ‘ Hand me up the other bottle . ’ |
| 24 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 25 | ‘ Turn me up the right way , chief . |
| 26 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 27 | At least , this human being loyally follows me around the place , keeps tabs on me and rings me up the whole time . |
| 28 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 29 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |