Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gives an annual opportunity for me to get up to dates with Fordyce Maxwell of The Scotsman , an old friend from my Berwick days , at the preliminaries . |
| 2 | ‘ Being young , we thought , well , here 's an opportunity for us to set up our own business , and to take a group of staff and clients out of AY . ’ |
| 3 | you know , below the shadow of both the next two properties , we shall , we shall , you know , just have a brick wall , and if they they just shifted the garage to one end and as far as I 'm concerned it 's an excuse for them to put up the power , that is , |
| 4 | I 'll give you a ring , a ring for you to come up |
| 5 | There was , she conceded , a great deal of him to fill up . |
| 6 | In fact , there has been talk of it taking up to four years to give effect to this , during which time who knows how many young people will die , while the Home Office and the Home Secretary drag their feet ? |
| 7 | But I need to practice with you counting up to thirty one . |
| 8 | It was only by an act of supreme will that she was finally able to wrench her mouth from his to look up at him with angry , blazing eyes . |
| 9 | I thought you had just become part of her growing up and learning about life . |
| 10 | She could never change her deeper feelings because he was still a part of her growing up , part of her life , her first awakening of passion . |
| 11 | What 's forty-eight hours and a good part of it taken up on the train ! |
| 12 | It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands . |
| 13 | This was the yard where Mrs Hollidaye fed the hens , throwing down the corn for them to peck up . |
| 14 | A little exercise for you to finish up with , not finish up this bit . |
| 15 | I owe a great deal to my education many years ago , as I come from the background of a Welsh mining village , where a high proportion of us ended up with university degrees — a far higher rate than in many posher , salubrious , suburban areas . |
| 16 | A small dish of it comes up for her every day . |
| 17 | But there had been no question of them taking up polo professionally . |
| 18 | After all , I ca n't see a girl like you giving up her freedom to live in a squalid little room above a shop — and , believe me , without help Peter certainly ca n't afford anything else . ’ |
| 19 | For a few moments no one spoke and then there was some activity in one corner where a young man was trying to persuade the girl beside him to stand up . |
| 20 | She 'd agreed with the head lad that there was no need for him to get up extra early , but he 'd insisted on leaving Shine On 's feed already made up . |
| 21 | There was no need for me to get up and prowl around while the rest of the family was sleeping because I could read all night , if I wanted to , and if I did n't get up until the middle of the day , no one seemed to mind very much . |
| 22 | There 's no need for you to pick up strangers to escort you when , as you know , I 'm more than willing to do so . ’ |
| 23 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
| 24 | putting a lot more detail in , rather than , any Beano Annual you should buy , there is always things in the background that draw you eye in to the picture , so Amy 's putting a lot more detail into the picture as it coming up for re-drawing . |
| 25 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 26 | Eyewitness Gary Toft ( 29 ) said : ‘ There did n't seem much danger of it going up , but suddenly there was an almighty bang . |
| 27 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 28 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 29 | Traffic was heavy and this was no day for me to pick up a ticket . |
| 30 | Every time he stays , he misses the toilet and there is usually a slight puddle for me to clear up . |