Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [pron] up " in BNC.

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1 That event & 's separation in the same year blighted by retirement … but is now divorced & we 've all brushed ourselves down & picked ourselves up again ! ) )
2 One wanted to go in and break it up , a second to stay back and let them go home .
3 Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla !
4 I waved him away as Karen thoughtfully tucked me in and zipped me up .
5 They come in and follow it up rather than preventing it .
6 When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up .
7 Yeah , she 'd been to college but she could n't get her car started , she had to get her dad to drive her in and pick her up .
8 It makes one wonder how much longer its OEM customer , technology partner and minority shareholder Hewlett-Packard Co is going to wait before buying the company and putting it out of its misery — or is it going to stand aside and let Sequoia 's other major partner , Samsung Electronics Co , Seoul , South Korea nip in and snap it up under its nose ?
9 They think ah look there 's a bit of drop of water in , there 's a packet of something let's stick it in and stir it up , they never read a packet to see what it could do .
10 He said she was to go to Ludgate Circus , stand on the south corner of Fleet Street at 6.30 p.m. and wait for a cab to pull in and pick her up .
11 but it 's beforehand eh , for instance they have little flowers that tells the story of what 's , what the plays about and I think it 's fair enough to read that , because a sighted person would go in and pick it up
12 ‘ Ah — ’ David began , but , before he could look at them , Sister had come in and picked them up .
13 Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form .
14 Well you know everything can be made and if it 's cold you just put the boxes in the fridge and if it 's hot you just put it in and seal it up .
15 She knelt down and rolled them up Bella 's legs and over her swollen knees .
16 He 's right next door to Reggie 's flats when you go down and pick him up
17 Now pick your fork up get down and pick it up .
18 Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight .
19 Everybody had to work , and them show people could take a er big machine down and put them up .
20 The end of the halyard goes through the end goes through the end fitting and then we tie a little stopper knot in the end , then we bring the other end of the halyard down and make it up tight on this crease at the bottom of the mast .
21 He reached down and bundled her up into his arms , trying to drown the feeble cries of pain that she uttered , reassuring her that everything would be all right .
22 But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming .
23 But even to come out of her flat and come up to us , if we went down and brought her up , she would come .
24 We did occasionally get the flies blowing them like , you know , but as long as you get it , got it in time and cut it down and cut it up straight away it was all right like .
25 And then the media coom down and blow everything up . ’
26 You want to scream out and make them stop it , and you want to cringe up your body and hide it somewhere , and there 's nowhere to hide , and the shells keep screaming down and blowing everything up all around you .
27 She was pushing against his chest but Fred rose to his feet and , moving sideways , suddenly bent down and swept her up in his strong arms .
28 No you just marked it down and cleared it up at the end of the year .
29 I could still have easily called in if I 'd wanted to but I saw something advertised in a village saw the board took the number down and phoned them up .
30 ‘ They 're certainly tearing things down and putting them up at the moment .
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