Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] up in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're going to sum it up in one word ? |
| 2 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 3 | Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 5 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 6 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 7 | It made us able to stand up on our own two feet , to sharpen us up in many respects . |
| 8 | I 've got a helicopter due to pick us up in half an hour , and the Citation 's on stand-by . |
| 9 | Erm , the facts are , and this is all in Trivers if you want to look up erm if you want to look it up in more detail , that males die more readily than females , from all causes that affect both sexes and some that even do n't and you 'd be astonished about , like for instance , you gather from John book on the myth of he heterosexual you 're not allowed to buy in this country , you have to import it from the U S. |
| 10 | Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way . |
| 11 | The waiter , a cocky Italian who flicked his buttocks at her at the least opportunity , eyed her patronisingly and made attempts to chat her up in feeble English . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 13 | Where training is provided by humanities computing or computing science departments , there are pressures to dress it up in formal scientific terms so as to legitimize it in the eyes of the surrounding scientific community . |
| 14 | He 'd beaten that habit out of her when she was a child , telling her he despised weakness in any form , and no child of his was going to show him up in public or private . |