Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I shouted to them to shut up . |
| 2 | I mean we , we said to them ring up on the day |
| 3 | Loneliness and the absence of advice , guidance and support often lead to them striking up friendships with others in the same situation which can offer peer-group support or may increase risks of involvement in prostitution , drugs or solvent abuse . |
| 4 | This has led to me setting up a very enthusiastic and committed core group which has given itself five years to complete the assessment and documentation needs to cover the Region . |
| 5 | It never crosses Hoving 's mind that Ingres is an artist by whom it is impossible to own too many works — nor , for that matter , that the ‘ uninspired portrait of the Marechal Count Gerard , which to me summed up the pomposity of Bonaparte 's court ’ ( one of the Ingres mentioned in Hoving 's list ) is in fact a fine , signed and dated , late work by Jacques-Louis David ! |
| 6 | I 'm supposed to me meeting up with halvard on sunday when he comes up to newcastle , but I think he left for england before I had time to mail him my phone number . |
| 7 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 8 | But although such classifications may sometimes be useful in guiding empirical research they do not seem to me to take up directly the most important questions , which are those concerning the significance of social movements in the process of reproduction and transformation of total social systems . |
| 9 | No she came up to me came up to me and she goes , Erm have you got a partner . |
| 10 | The Feldwebel pointed to the entrance to the station and the mousy man signed to me to pick up the case . |
| 11 | The whole question of our relations with the Americans on atomic energy questions seems to me bound up with the larger issue of the extent to which the Americans are prepared to treat us on more or less equal terms as a first-class power . |
| 12 | You appreciate that means he has no , effectively no record at all and that seems to me to balance up what 's happened here against er against the fact that he 's got no previous convictions Madam . |
| 13 | So is it you say no , have to she showed up . |
| 14 | As far as being listening to you talking today earlier on it seems to you set up in your minds a win lose situation , I 'll show that . |
| 15 | So it 's a very inconve if someone said to you come up er okay this you put initial values in |
| 16 | Now of course it 'll come as no surprise to you to use up all your yeses . |
| 17 | A neighbouring school may decide to cut back on special needs provision or transport to the swimming baths or some other expensive provision and an influx of recruits from that school may be looking to you to pick up the bills . |
| 18 | I want to you look up for me . |
| 19 | He imitated a shrill , foolish voice and Tug could tell that it was a good imitation because the girl next to him looked up sharply . |
| 20 | Mr Heath , 47 , earned £3 million in 1989 when the international share dealing business was turning in record profits but ‘ a disagreement about strategic policy ’ has led to him giving up his directorships at the City 's oldest merchant banking group . |
| 21 | This seems to suggest an assailant unknown to him coming up behind him with a weapon in the right hand , holding him round the neck with the left arm ( fabric traces in the teeth ) to prevent him shouting . |
| 22 | I said to him ring up and |
| 23 | The one good thing was the Australian pair finally making up their minds to come , the wife 's partners having agreed to her taking up to a year 's sabbatical . |
| 24 | People sitting next to her got up and moved away . |
| 25 | but you know that er our Susan wanted to go down to erm , get her hair done this morning so erm I says to her come up here , we 'll get a taxi from here we 'll go down the hairdressers and shall permission to collect our money , so we got a taxi from here down to erm what they call that street where er that erm oh dear me Street |
| 26 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 27 | Final assembly is the stage in the car production process when the welded steel car body , having already been painted , is brought together with the engine and transmission , and all the components and trim are attached to it to make up the completed car . |