Example sentences of "take [pers pn] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would take me up to seven in the evening , then I 'd break open a bottle of brandy and a bottle of port and mix them . ’ |
| 2 | Er it said produce seventy two to seventy three three , so two produces a budget of seventy two million in two b you can see but you will see in two b that we are actually saying you can have an actual sort of implemental approach which will take you up to three billion . |
| 3 | Let me take you up on one or two of those points . |
| 4 | I 'll take you up on that . |
| 5 | ‘ I might take you up on that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , we 'll take you up on that , Dave , ’ Graham said then suddenly looked despairingly at the sealed container . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll take you up on that offer of a bed if it 's still going . ’ |
| 8 | Well thank , thanks for your call Mr , I dare say that er , other people in a , in a similar position may er , may want to er , take you up on that . |
| 9 | ‘ If we had more time I 'd take you up on that challenge you 're issuing , my lady , ’ he growled , in a voice that had gone dark and soft . |
| 10 | He suffered from hypothermia and the pain in his hands was such it would take him up to six minutes ‘ just to have a pee ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll take it up with higher authority , if that 's what you want , ’ said the American nervously . |
| 12 | I mean let's be honest if we all turned out that 's five and if the rest of the Executive Committee turned out that would virtually take it up to ten we would n't be looking for many more after that |
| 13 | and so land reform was no longer seen as a means to achieve their end that they that and that it was n't the best policy to consolidate power , it was you needed to have the mass support there first so that 's why land reform was no longer seen as their goal so they did n't take it up at this point when one would expect them to pursue it . |
| 14 | All these people have discovered a passion for one of the most popular recreational sports , sailing , and as you can see , you can take it up at any age . |
| 15 | Just er for clarification that that is indeed the case as Mr Cunnane says , but the erm the village envelopes were brought forward by way of an alteration to the adopted rural areas local plan which will take us up to nineteen ninety six , erm we will possibly have to look and review some of those envelopes in connection with the emerging local plan . |
| 16 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm taking him up to that wood . ’ |
| 18 | In fact when the cleaning lady has an ‘ audit ’ of his desk and tidies up the heaps , it is a ‘ nightmare ’ , taking him up to half a day to get back on track . |
| 19 | getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes |
| 20 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 21 | Ebbo , added Charles , often took her up on this promise . |
| 22 | I took her up on this , and the first thing we did was to bring Southall and Kizzy home . |
| 23 | As far as I know he never took her up on any of these , and that may have been the reason why I was her least favourite Waaf on the station . |
| 24 | It just took 'em up like that , and took 'em across : some were lying in the ditch , some in the hedge . |
| 25 | ‘ It took all the stacks up — tons and tons — and simply took 'em up like that off the ground and scattered them over the fields . |
| 26 | There is a clearly written text with an illustrated chronology of the country 's history taking it up to 1992 . |
| 27 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 28 | And erm we 'd got like jug each and there 's about nine of us and we all took it up to one of the rooms and we drunk the lot of it and we were all like getting a bit a bit |
| 29 | Peter Scudamore 's mount took it up from Jinxy Jack two out and sprinted clear on the flat , landing the odds by five lengths from Gordon Richards ' horse , with Fidway two lengths away in third . |
| 30 | People around here have taken it up with different parties but everyone seems to pass the buck . |