Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 2 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 3 | You 're supposed to curl it up in a , in a erm in a brush when you blow dry it you know . |
| 4 | It takes a Wittgenstein to pull us up with a jolt , by saying that this is like translating a chair — not the word ‘ chair ’ , but a chair — into French . |
| 5 | The Dutch parliament has recently decided that owners of contaminated sites should aim to clean them up to a level that is suitable for any use , but has accepted that where such a policy is uneconomic , it would be sufficient to isolate , control and monitor the land . |
| 6 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 8 | ‘ What about asking Albert 's to set you up with a really quiet-looking business outfit for New York ? |
| 9 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 12 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 13 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 14 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 15 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 16 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 17 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 18 | It is easier to bring off if you have an assistant to hold the camcorder , otherwise , you have to set it up on a tripod or some other suitable support and switch it on with a remote control or time-delay . |
| 19 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 20 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 21 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 22 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 23 | And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute . |
| 24 | They provided my family and I with currency exchange at competitive rates , advice on aeroplane repairs , free landing and hangarage , free overnight accommodation — and even organised on-the-spot Customs clearance when a friend came to pick us up in a twin the following morning . |
| 25 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 26 | This was a slow process , for Tom had to keep stopping to explain what the words meant , and several times had to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 27 | A{ declaration } is defined in BNF as : Using the " translate and test " instruction , show how a program could be written to check any character string against this definition , and extract the{ ident } s in order to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 28 | He asked the coach to fit him up with a pair of boxing gloves . |
| 29 | She invited him to cover it up with a paper bag but he snapped the band round the back of his head and ran off into the street , an elephant ramping above the collar of his jersey , his new trunk bobbing . |
| 30 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |