Example sentences of "[pers pn] up in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 3 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She saw him crumple them up in a sudden burst of impatience , and fling them across the parade . |
| 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 surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 9 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 10 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 11 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 12 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 13 | People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected . |
| 14 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If you take as much trouble as we do in BP to get the words and information right , it would be silly to dish them up in an unattractive package , ’ Brigg adds . |
| 16 | Grumbling under his breath at the lateness of the hour , and the fact that he was missing an important baseball game on TV , the super — who appeared to be of Polish extraction — nevertheless insisted on taking them up in an antiquated , dangerously shaky lift . |
| 17 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 18 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 19 | Any way , Aunt Bessie brought her up in the little house built by her husband and brother-in-law which was near to South Stainmore . |
| 20 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 21 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 22 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 23 | Then Charley Bates and the Dodger took away Oliver 's expensive new suit , gave him some old clothes , and locked him up in a dark room . |
| 24 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 25 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 26 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 27 | As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ . |
| 28 | Paula , and perhaps we 'll bring it up in a first aid . |
| 29 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 30 | Accordingly , we wrap it up in a little computer procedure , label it DEVELOPMENT , and prepare to embed it in a larger program labelled EVOLUTION . |