Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Erm and I sli I yo pulled me up to one corner and I know it 's really nasty |
| 5 | Blonde Joanne had to grin and bear it when actor boyfriend Tony Scannell , who stars as Ted in The Bill , whooped it up on one of his fun nights at Stringfellows in London . |
| 6 | And erm we 'd got like jug each and there 's about nine of us and we all took it up to one of the rooms and we drunk the lot of it and we were all like getting a bit a bit |
| 7 | Yeah one seventy nine he put them to , and then he put them up to one eighty two or summat and then they 've gone up to one eighty nine I think they are . |
| 8 | Quigley held me up with one free hand and opened the door of his car with the other . |
| 9 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 10 | ‘ Only yesterday the Trunchbull caught a boy called Julius Rottwinkle eating Liquorice Allsorts during the scripture lesson and she simply picked him up by one arm and flung him clear out of the open classroom window . |
| 11 | He glared down into her determined face and then swept her up in one smooth movement , carrying her into the darkened barn and grimly mounting the wooden steps . |
| 12 | He picked it up by one long back leg . |