Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 2 | The teacher claimed that the boy put the forceps in his hand , but the pupil said Mr Harrison had picked them up from a desk . |
| 3 | She had curled herself up in a corner of the motorspeeder to get some rest , but there was too much adrenalin swimming aimlessly about her system and her eyes kept opening themselves . |
| 4 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 5 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 6 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 7 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 8 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 9 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 10 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 11 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 12 | You 've looked it up in the Titmarsh have you ? |
| 13 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 14 | If you 've got an unknown author there is no way somebody is going to buy that book unless they have picked it up off the shelf . |
| 15 | I think we must have both picked it up during a visit to some relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 16 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 17 | If they thought it was that bad they would of picked it up on the M O T would n't they ? |
| 18 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 19 | do n't worry , it 's , it 's in the grass and she 's just picked it up in the heat wave . |
| 20 | Ward 's payment was agreed with Saunders ‘ a man who had huge authority in that company because he had picked it up by the scruff of the neck and transformed it . ’ |
| 21 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 22 | They get to the stage where they 've clogged themselves up with the the by-products , so part of making a battery is trying to design it so it does n't clog itself up . |
| 23 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 24 | What is more , introducing PRP for nurses has added anything up to a billion dollars to administrative costs in the US public sector — a figure which may send shudders down the spine of Britain 's cost-conscious NHS . |
| 25 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 26 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 27 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 28 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 29 | And Jim , when he comes in , they 're both , they 're both all , I 've pr priced them up on the top and er |
| 30 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |