Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had picked her up of intent , had followed her into this inn for some purpose of his own . |
| 2 | The family had just picked her up from hospital in Oxford and were taking her home to Swindon . |
| 3 | Perhaps the man had picked it up in West Cameroun . |
| 4 | Ah , I 've made them up into poster size . |
| 5 | Our shuttering had been fabricated in the workshop , complete with risers reinforced with some 75 × 50mm timber , but we could have made it up on site . |
| 6 | I 'd got fed up with her everlasting sweetness and shown her up in class the day before . |
| 7 | The poor little mite has the colic , but I have dosed him up with laudanum . ’ |
| 8 | They had tied her up to attention , with many a sniggering jest : They had bound a musket beside her , with the parrel beneath her breast ! |
| 9 | On NoS they were being treated to the miracle of new technology , bypassing the National Graphical Association compositors who , before the age of ‘ direct entry ’ computers , retyped the articles on Linotype hot metal machines after the subs had marked them up in pencil . |
| 10 | They had previously won compensation of 1 million yen each for eight former employees dismissed in the ‘ red purge ’ and had set them up in business near the company 's housing project . |
| 11 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 12 | Well John sorted that he 's brought you up to date now . |
| 13 | I do n't woke you up in middle of night , it 's before |
| 14 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 15 | He did a double stint of exercise until he was clammy with globules of sweat and then sluiced himself over from the two cold jugs of water Christine had brought him up after breakfast . |
| 16 | And I 'd have eaten you up with guilt and bitterness first . |
| 17 | Oh I cried when Penny went I really did , I said you with a temper and that last day you know , we all got a bucket filled it up with ash trays , dog ends , bits of paper , oh I do n't know what was in it |
| 18 | We can hint that a less honourable man could have ground her up to mincemeat . ’ |
| 19 | Because Irina did not want to travel in one of the carts , Jehan had taken her up in front of him . |
| 20 | It 's erm when you start a car , have you ever been in a car when someone 's started it up in gear and the car moves forward ? |
| 21 | I mean he would of put it up for sale knowing that you wanted to get somewhere between you , knowing that the house market is as it is |
| 22 | Within weeks , the Westminster Gazette ( 15 September 1898 ) had taken it up in order to ridicule the enemy forces in the Sudan campaign . |
| 23 | But I like to think that I have kept them up to date . |
| 24 | Ms Fiona Reynolds of the Council for National Parks has kept me up to date with the progress of the EEC 's Agricultural Structures Review . |
| 25 | In Spain , the party that might hold the balance of power after the general election on June 6th , the Communist-dominated United Left , has reservations about the treaty , though it has dressed them up as criticism of the government for refusing to call a referendum on it . |
| 26 | His frequent visits to North Korea since 1971 had kept him up to date with the progress of the reconstruction of Pyongyang under the Kims , father and son . |
| 27 | We 'd kept her up till quarter to eight and she was knackered . |
| 28 | Right well erm so y at the moment have they paid you up to date ? |
| 29 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |