Example sentences of "up [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You remember how Rosamund Coldharbour set you up for him in the matter of typing that sermon ? ’ |
| 2 | The bloke has lost all respect from me — and fuck knows have I stood up for him in the past . |
| 3 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 4 | The invasion of Panama , curiously summed up for her in the shape of Chinook helicopters , had served as a convenient diversion . |
| 5 | This is what enables us in historical study to bridge the gulf between the present and the past , to enter into the experience and awareness which are opened up for us in the thoughts , beliefs , practices and social customs and institutions of other times and other cultures . |
| 6 | cos you get fed up of them in the end |
| 7 | When the car goes wrong , who ends up underneath it in the snow ? |
| 8 | One afternoon after tennis I was sitting on a drawing-room sofa at Bemersyde when Dawyck 's dog , a long black cocker spaniel called Wasp , came and nuzzled up against me in the most friendly manner . |
| 9 | So what if he did n't want to spend the day cooped up with her in the bedroom , only emerging when hunger demanded that their stomachs be fed ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're doing them a favour because legislation will catch up with them in the end . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series . |
| 15 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 16 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 17 | You 'll come up with me in the Land Rover . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll straighten up with you in the pub . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 21 | They catch up with you in the end . |
| 22 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 23 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 24 | I thought you might panic if I suddenly loomed up beside you in the darkness . ’ |
| 25 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 26 | ‘ Then we come up on me in the studio . |
| 27 | ‘ When I check up on him in the morning he asks for you . |
| 28 | ‘ I gave up on you in the end and bought some myself . ’ |
| 29 | Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet went up to her in the street and pressed her hands between theirs . |
| 30 | I hope he makes it up to her in the end . |