Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 2 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 3 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 4 | She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking |
| 5 | And you can guarantee , he was on t' phone on Saturday , he phoned me up on Monday , he phoned me on Tuesday and said , now I remember what I wanted . |
| 6 | With the Apostles in mind , he has produced twelve wooden blocks , akin to children 's bricks , and lined them up on shelves . |
| 7 | They helped him up to bed , and he slept until nine o'clock the next morning . |
| 8 | and what they did , and you were there , and you must 've been listening , what they did , percent for people , they moved it up to Policy and Resources , Policy and Resources percent for people came around , Councillor spoke . |
| 9 | A council inspector was called in to test the beer at the club in Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk … and found it up to strength . |
| 10 | I span my Phazer round , the wave lifted me up towards God , and I rose to my feet . |
| 11 | I ran across one the other day that lifted me up on wings of heady prose , only to plunge me into the deep end of bathos . |
| 12 | Men with nothing in their heads always filled them up with bits of women 's bodies . |
| 13 | Arty laid down his pen and geared himself up for argument . |
| 14 | In answer she lifted herself up on tiptoe and leaned against his tall , firm frame . |
| 15 | They buried her up at St Saviour 's , in the far corner of the graveyard where the ground slopes away from the redstone church . |
| 16 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 17 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 18 | Not long after that day a big van came and some men filled it up with furniture . |
| 19 | went down to Horsham yesterday and erm went down there and came back filled it up with petrol , and it worked out to five quid |
| 20 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 21 | Rebecque brought the orders himself and handed them up to Sharpe who was already mounted . |
| 22 | So at the moment with the earning that they paid you up to date two hundred and fifty quid I ca n't give you reduced advice under the legal aid system at the moment because you 're still being paid . |
| 23 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 24 | Because you turned it up to number five and it was pale . |
| 25 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 26 | He also handcuffed prisoners , swung them up on hooks and watched them dangle . |
| 27 | Another who knocked them up before daylight . |
| 28 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 29 | A. T. In those days , if you locked somebody up at night , you might be let off duty at three o'clock in the morning . |
| 30 | As her body began to shake with mirth , Ludovico raised himself up in dismay and cried , ‘ What do I do wrong ? |