Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] up [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hauled me up to my tutor , who said , do you intend to marry the girl ? |
| 2 | As Mrs Giffen showed me up to my room , she smiled and said , ‘ Is n't it wonderful ? |
| 3 | It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed . |
| 4 | I made sure I got some of the white powder on my fingertips and not making a big deal of it , brought them up to my tongue . |
| 5 | Not one took me up on my offer to know more ! |
| 6 | Mamma warned me that they were very rich , but I took them up to my room and stuffed the lot . |
| 7 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 8 | I looked it up in my book . |
| 9 | I looked it up in my handbook of psychiatry and the nearest I could get was ‘ spendthrift behaviour ’ , an expression of hypomania , a serious problem requiring urgent treatment — usually , so it says in my handbook , in a hospital setting , which seems a little extreme — but there you are . |
| 10 | The house was sold off and I ended up inheriting 12,000 dollars , so I went straight out and bought an AG 440 Ampex professional four track machine and took it up to my father 's coffee plant , and every night when he left I would drive up and work on Stevie 's and my songs . |
| 11 | I shut him up in my cellar with all he needed for painting and a bottle of cognac , and my maid , who was a very pretty girl , served as his model . |
| 12 | ‘ I had her up in my arms . |
| 13 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 14 | Mr Wood reported to me that his servants had never seen such splendour and , as they carried it up to my rooms — where it sits safely ! — they felt like pirates from the Spanish main , he said , hauling off the booty ! ’ |
| 15 | But unless I talked out the issue with others , or wrote it up in my diary , it may be far from clear even to myself whether or not I did verbally formulate the alternatives . |
| 16 | Which does n't mean I intend to leap into bed with you just because fate washed you up on my beach . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a lucky day for me when the storm washed you up on my island , my darling . ’ |
| 18 | I suppose I picked it up in my room instead of my handbag . ’ |