Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 2 | So everyone continues to use the Ridgeway in a fairly easy truce — while the men from the ministry make up their minds . |
| 3 | The West builds up its metals mountain |
| 4 | His presence made up her mind for her and she turned , brushing past him and heading towards a newspaper vendor who sat shivering behind his stall at the nearby entrance to a Metro station . |
| 5 | ‘ You do not know , ’ said Lili , ‘ how many women would gladly put away for ever their suspender-belt and stockings — put them away with the relief of the weary warrior hanging up his shield after battle . ’ |
| 6 | His tongue and lips and breathing rose up her body to her breasts , her neck , her shoulders , her ears , her stifling hair . |
| 7 | As she arched her foot , her hand automatically flexed and a strand of hope flickered up her arm and across her back . |
| 8 | He did an eight month fitter/armourer course ending up his training with top marks and a corporal 's stripes , and then did several months ' instructing before being sent to a ground crew on a Bomber Command airfield . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a rock sticking up my arse ! |
| 10 | ENGLAND , warned Disraeli while wind ing up his Budget speech of 1852 , does not love coalitions . |
| 11 | As Ken told John Lahr , author of the official Orton biography Prick Up Your Ears ( Lahr also edited the Orton diaries ) : ‘ He ( Orton ) had this capacity to have a sexual adventure and tell you the conversation that went on as well . |
| 12 | It is today — professionals such as Mr Peter Mandelson and Sir Gordon Reece believe — that the electorate make up their minds . |
| 13 | The first year of my research made up my pilot study and from that I decided to carry out a full scale research project . |
| 14 | She watched the vibrator disappear up his rectum ; and heard his gasp as he tried to move his swollen prong inside her . |
| 15 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |
| 16 | The success of the programme built up her self-esteem and improved her general relationship with Luke . |
| 17 | DIESEL fuel needs a new PR agent to clean up its image in the minds of the public if it is to take its place as the efficient , environmental fuel of the future that many would like it to be . |
| 18 | Stuck for the precise word , the Colonel made a small gesture with his right hand which then efficiently used the momentum to pick up his claret . |
| 19 | The priest screwed up his eyes . |
| 20 | The pig turned up her nose . |
| 21 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 22 | The little Priapus threw up his arms at me , jeering his pagan smile at my English face . |
| 23 | Such letters are available immediately the recipient opens up his PC . |
| 24 | Ellwood stayed still for a while , letting the priest set up his tackle and make a couple of casts , then he slithered down to the path . |
| 25 | These trips may be run after the employee has agreed to undertake the assignment and so form an integral part of the briefing process given before the employee takes up his posting . |
| 26 | THE Jockey Club stepped up its battle against the dopers yesterday by offering a reward of up to £5,000 for information leading to a conviction of those responsible . |
| 27 | Will the Secretary of State ensure that his Department backs up his promises to the business community and ensure that such disincentives to the business community coming forward are not allowed to continue ? |
| 28 | The attempt to line up our thinking with what has been perceived as the most powerful of the current orthodoxies has certainly brought about a number of structural changes to the PGCE course the most important of which to affect the modern language group has undoubtedly been the decision to replace the single teaching practice in the spring term by two teaching practices , the first in the autumn and the second in the summer term . |
| 29 | Stockings mean icy blasts whistling round your thighs and gusts of wind blowing up your knickers . |
| 30 | She undid his ankles , and left him with his wrists secured and the vibrator buzzing up his arse . |