Example sentences of "up [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 32 | But as they were returning with all speed , Rodrigo of Bivar raised the country , and came up with them in the mountains of Oca , and fell upon them and discomfited them , and won back all their booty , and took all the five Kings prisoners . |
| 33 | ‘ We 're doing them a favour because legislation will catch up with them in the end . |
| 34 | that went out to erm making up argu , you know if you 'd fallen out with somebody you had to make up with them before the bells , and in fact what my granny did was to erm to empty the fire and to relay the fire for the new year |
| 35 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 36 | There was no way I could hope to keep up with him through the tunnel ( a route I highly recommend if you want to lose a tail ) as there were just too many imponderable lane changes and toll booth stops , so I U-turned where I should n't and headed back . |
| 37 | So now I have to put up with him on the boat . |
| 38 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 39 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 40 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 41 | Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you . |
| 42 | Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you . |
| 43 | Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series . |
| 44 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 45 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 46 | You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’ |
| 47 | You 'll come up with me in the Land Rover . |
| 48 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 49 | Erm , like if you get the money , spend it , I always spend my money on loads of shit and I end up with nothing at the end of the day . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
| 52 | He was quite prepared to hail this as a ‘ great film ’ , for if critics were prepared to lavish that term ‘ on any half-chewed jumble of stills that comes in from abroad , then I am in favour of loosening up with it on the home front ’ . |
| 53 | I enjoyed meeting up with you at the JNCC presentation on Monday evening and was impressed in particular by Lord Selbourne 's clear determination ( shared by all the country council chairmen ) to make the JNCC both an effective co-ordinating body between the councils and a strategic ‘ think tank ’ on issues where a UK or an international perspective is essential . |
| 54 | She 's got to put up with you for the next six months or more ! ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Listen , I do n't know what you 're up to now , but let me make it quite clear that I 'm only prepared to put up with you for the sake of the station and my job . |
| 56 | ‘ I 'll straighten up with you in the pub . ’ |
| 57 | Eventually , though , it will catch up with you in the form of self-loathing , as the pounds pile themselves on and you possibly curb your social life , and , moreover , endanger your health . |
| 58 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 59 | They catch up with you in the end . |
| 60 | Towards the end of ‘ Stately As a Galleon ’ I get cramp in both feet and they curl up under me like the last Empress 's fingernails and stay cramped through waltzing finale , curtain calls and notes from director , friends and husband . |