Example sentences of "yourself up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in Chapter 4 , I mentioned that pull-ups were very useful exercises because they strengthen the muscles needed to pull yourself up over a high wall . |
| 2 | ‘ Stop working yourself up over nothing , and let's be on our way . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been taught that if things are n't going your way and they never do all the time when times are tough and you 're a bit low in confidence , it 's up to you to pick yourself up off the ground . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been taught that if things are n't going your way , and they never do all the time , when times are tough and you 're a bit low in confidence , it 's up to you to pick yourself up off the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ Winding yourself up into blind hysteria ? ’ he asked sharply . |
| 6 | Can you divide yourself up into groups of four first of all please ? |
| 7 | ‘ You set yourself up as judge and jury , and yet who are you to decide matters — a man who spent the evening philandering with his secretary ! ’ |
| 8 | Assess the ‘ crime ’ without beating yourself up with knowledge of your past bad record . |
| 9 | Have you ever pulled yourself up with your arms ? |
| 10 | When you decide to get married , fix yourself up with someone of the old school , not one of those feminist flibbertigibbets of the kind Jim and I have landed ourselves with — undomesticated , never there , eyes set on further career mountains to be climbed . |
| 11 | ‘ The best thing you can do is go home and tuck yourself up with a hot-water bottle , ’ she advised , pulling on her coat . |
| 12 | no you have to get yourself up with your four legs , you 've got four legs so you can get up , that 's it , just , that 's how horses get up on the front legs first , then the back , that 's right |
| 13 | To do as you are doing , to take to yourself the right to decide who shall and who shall not be born , is to set yourself up above God — ’ |
| 14 | Take yourself up to Keith and tell him I 'll be back to say what happened . ’ |
| 15 | You set your sights on a meeting , you build yourself up to it , and naturally what follows can be something of an anti-climax . |
| 16 | The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused . |
| 17 | It is possible to cover yourself up to a specified limit , for the loss or theft or fraudulent use of money and credit cards . |
| 18 | ‘ Give yourself up to the fixed idea : to become a painter . ’ |
| 19 | Ahmed : When you are Black and gay and you open yourself up to the realities and contradictions inherent in this combined identity , it provides a better basis for understanding other people 's experience , both intellectually and intuitively . |
| 20 | Be prepared to centre yourself in revery , to give yourself up to your memories just as your sleeping self gives itself up to a dream . |
| 21 | " Hullo , Pipkin ! fill yourself up to the ears ! |
| 22 | Have n't you any taste for travelling into the unknown , giving yourself up to the pull of the elements ? ’ |
| 23 | Keep yourself up to date with the substance and intent of the legal and regulatory framework that applies to your work . |
| 24 | To open yourself up to someone like that , I am a failure , then you 're kind of establishing a different level of relationship are n't you . |
| 25 | You try making anything out of that and you 'll find yourself up to your neck in more trouble than you can handle ! ’ |
| 26 | this Dorothy told me about she said get yourself up to the wool shop Ann and |
| 27 | I 've got it , I 've got some how , but this wool threaded through here , she said get yourself up to the wool shop at Stock Hill they 've got this cotton look stuff in all colours for er fifty pence a ball |
| 28 | He says , so you you you you you 're not , you 're not stinging yourself up to something er |
| 29 | However , you need to keep yourself up to date with this bumf , and you 've got to control it . |
| 30 | But you , you 're right that if we stick to somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred as , as a erm even a basic kind of subsistence I E you 've just got enough in just , you , you 're just not using enough food to get yourself up to two hundred , two thousand calories a day at that rate you were still being taxed on , a at a rate of almost twenty percent of your , of your income . |