Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] up [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bird symbolising the yearning for freedom man has , his desire to pull himself up above and beyond the limits and discomforts of his own restricted world . |
| 2 | It is as easy for the sportsman to shoot me up here as down there . |
| 3 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 4 | I know and I 'm trying to pile them up now and let you see the patterns so these |
| 5 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 6 | She glanced irritably at the waiter , barely resisting the urge , it seemed , to hurry him up so that her companion could continue . |
| 7 | He had had to fight for everything he had done , fight the people who wanted to wrap him up safely and wheel him out for a bit of ribbon-cutting and ceremonial . |
| 8 | If I buy it I have to wrap it up so because it |
| 9 | You could think of course do have children , dad , can I , can I , can I , bed you go , just to shut them up so if you have two small children there , the chances are you will lose the woman put them to bed or . |
| 10 | ‘ She looks terrible now , but I 'm going to put packing in the cheeks to fill them up again after I 've dried her out . |
| 11 | Well you have to have , you have to have a the only the trouble with it is , I 've got , I 'll either have to put them up here or I 'll have to scrape scrape some of the wall out I ca n't close the door ! |
| 12 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 13 | Police have now appealed to Hanger to give himself up peacefully but armed police are on standby . |
| 14 | The Emperor Napoleon got a good deal because France would have had to give it up sooner or later anyway , and I got a good deal because Louisiana gave me a lovely companion for life with all the legendary charms of your people . " |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got to weigh it up carefully and make sure I can justify my selection . ’ |
| 16 | He won two handicap hurdles last season over this course and has had two races to tune him up again and he is not badly handicapped . |
| 17 | Not without throwing a great lot onto the rates because the rates were just Selkirkshire , and Peebleshire had to keep it up then and er we did n't er get grants for it in these days . |
| 18 | In earlier version of the program it was impossible to line anything up anyway because the program 's internal accuracy was insufficient ; the classic 11 point being converted by the program into 10.98 point with the rounding errors occasionally throwing an extra line on or off the page . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , that 's right you had to hold yours up together as well . |
| 20 | Does him good to stir him up now and again . |
| 21 | You have to be able to hold it up there and perhaps put it down on paper or apply it . |
| 22 | She bent her head into it as she crossed the yard , only to lift it up sharply as she heard a voice saying , ‘ Psst ! |
| 23 | And then you 've got ta ring them up and ask them again to see who 's to see who Cos they usually say , Well I 'll see what I can do , and then you 've got to ring them up again and see if they 've done anything , and and er and then sometimes you 've got ta ring them up again . |
| 24 | they 've got to break them up now while they 're young |
| 25 | He was just about to stitch my up again when he saw a movement and pulled out an inch-and-a-half-long botfly larva , at which point the nurse in attendance fainted . ’ |
| 26 | His attorney had managed to get him to take them up again and I went to the prison to have the necessary papers signed . |
| 27 | There was no trace of his usual cheekiness , either because he was seriously worried about his son or simply because he had no need to defend himself up here where he was in his element and they were out of theirs . |
| 28 | He 's pulled our strings as if we were his puppets , and there I was , all ready to touch you up just as he wanted . |
| 29 | That 's still there now , cos they used to take it up there and dump it when it were n't any good . |
| 30 | So Mr Chairman sorry to bring it up again but er I think it 's in line what this gentleman said er bearing in mind I think it is a fact that this is a reasonable theatre enjoyed by people from a very large catchment area could you please tell us what support the the er playhouse has had from the local authorities adjacent to Harlow . |