Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 2 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |
| 3 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 4 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 5 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 6 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 7 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 8 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 9 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 10 | ‘ Our physio Jim Walker was great for me , tried to cheer me up by explaining that Mark Hughes had the same problem when he returned to Manchester United from Barcelona . |
| 11 | The brief church service and the burial at Oak Bay Cemetery were not impressive , and Emily 's three Vancouver friends ate a doleful dinner in the Empress Hotel that evening , although Lawren tried to cheer us up in his own inimitable way , and we were grateful . |
| 12 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 13 | She tried to hold it up against Constance who pulled away and said loudly , ‘ Yellow ! |
| 14 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 15 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 16 | They helped fix us up with clothes , then with a solicitor for an injunction . |
| 17 | At his home his mother earnestly tried to fatten us up for our adventure ahead , as only the Chinese know how . |
| 18 | Yeah , because you tried to beat me up behind Mrs ! |
| 19 | So , I tried to make it up to her in every way I could — though it was n't easy — she went on hating me for years . ’ |
| 20 | A spokeswoman for French TV station TF1 who screened the show , said last night : ‘ Eric is very close to his grandmother , who helped to bring him up as a child . |
| 21 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 22 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 23 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |
| 24 | Receptor molecules spit out their neurotransmitters once they have served their purpose , and the cell whence they came mops them up for reuse . |
| 25 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 26 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 27 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 28 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 29 | ‘ Pa , if only I 'd made it up with you , ’ she cried . |
| 30 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |