Example sentences of "up [prep] [pers pn] [prep] 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 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 6 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 7 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
| 8 | We 've got to clean this up for you for the weekend . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | cos you get fed up of them in the end |
| 11 | When the car goes wrong , who ends up underneath it in the snow ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 14 | He shook his head , leaning back slightly , watching as she drew one shapely leg up beneath her on the chair . |
| 15 | It was Rose , panting up behind her along the cinder track . |
| 16 | Very quietly , I came up behind them through the trees , and called out to them in English . |
| 17 | Ranald went up with her to the shieling , carrying a pot with charcoal burning in it . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 19 | A man caught up with her on the pavement and for a moment she stared at him blankly . |
| 20 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | It 's very hard , I am finding it hard to keep up with them at the moment . |
| 23 | He looked by the way from the most of them , playing up with them at the games and did the up there . |
| 24 | Quelle horreur : many 's the time I have found myself torn between throwing people like him out and putting up with them for the sake of the cash-till . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're doing them a favour because legislation will catch up with them in the end . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 30 | 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 . |