Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 2 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 3 | His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 5 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 6 | I caught him up at last . |
| 7 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 8 | And then inside building we completely demolished inside , just sort of left the retaining walls and built it up from fourteen feet below the ground to five storeys , high , itself . |
| 9 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 10 | That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest . |
| 11 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 12 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 13 | He reached for the engine control and turned it up to full power . |
| 14 | The relentlessly lumbering movie machine has taken a truly extreme , hallucinatory book about oppression and obedience , juiced it up with some patronising love interest and turned it into a standard ‘ women 's issues ’ film : sanitised , regulated and pointless . |
| 15 | Feeling hurt and bewildered , she looked away , then squealed in alarm as he swung her up into strong arms . |
| 16 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 17 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 18 | Now let's say let's say your mum came in and she said how many for this pizza and we said oh just the three of us and she cut it cut it up into three pieces three pieces all the same size . |
| 19 | In 1923 , Jehu and Craig produced the first detailed account of the geology of this region , and followed it up with further accounts between 1925 and 1934 . |
| 20 | And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) . |
| 21 | He followed it up by further personal diplomacy , this time with Russia . |
| 22 | In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital . |
| 23 | Yeah , they go got it and swung it up like that , and I 'm sure to the stallion could n't find where it was ! |
| 24 | Katie cut hers up into five hundred pieces |
| 25 | We did that and we counted it in bunches of five dozens , tied them up with two other stock socks tied together , and when we 'd done , I 'll know this figure 's right two thousand four hundred socks we got six pence . |
| 26 | I nearly fell over , he pulled me up with such a |
| 27 | Erm and I sli I yo pulled me up to one corner and I know it 's really nasty |
| 28 | They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there |
| 29 | He rang me up at nine o'clock . |
| 30 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |