Example sentences of "up [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I usually picked up my money on Friday evening so I was running a little short . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , when I pick up my money for the job , they did n't seem too happy . |
| 3 | I have a few close trusted friends and family , but I do n't open up my heart to all and sundry . ’ |
| 4 | I made one in trusting you enough to open up my heart to you about my ex-fiancé . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got to pick up my stuff from the pub , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've given up my life for a fool and he 's never even noticed it . |
| 7 | I am giving up my throne for the woman I loathe |
| 8 | I took up my pint as Jamie settled in to blast a few of the gaudy formations . |
| 9 | We made camp that night in a clearing in the woods , and I put up my tent in what appeared to be a large sandpit , in the vague hope that perhaps the mozzies might not like it . |
| 10 | I do n't want to f— up my music by being too political . |
| 11 | Marc is apparently in Madrid or he would be up my drainpipe like a shot . |
| 12 | I gather up my shirt in silence and start down the ladder . |
| 13 | Even when it was announced that she and Fabien had become formally engaged I would not give up my pursuit of her . |
| 14 | I set up my equipment at this new site , and watched and waited . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm building up my credibility by fighting someone like Tony Tucker while Bowe loses his by taking on people like his last opponent , Michael Dokes , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I went out into the drive and blew up my horn like mad . |
| 17 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 18 | Whilst the ladies sat in the pavilion and the knights and their squires stood at their stations I took up my position at the serving table . |
| 19 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 20 | I took up my position near Dod as it was preferable to having my ear down the muzzle of Chase 's tuba and Martin was told to hang over the back of the truck as best he could . |
| 21 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 22 | A strong intellectual or emotional appeal may reinforce self-image ; the appeal bolsters up my idea of myself as a rational/analytical/ thinking person or as a warm/empathetic/sensitive one . |
| 23 | I picked up my satchel with its broken strap and walked — no , limped — to the window . |
| 24 | Daddy kept rather obviously bestirring himself to mind about my exams and piling up my desk with secondary stuff I 've no time for — I do n't want to read literary criticism yet , almost at all , and I 'm damned sure he does n't smother his clever boys with it . |
| 25 | Congress , I joined the Labour Party and I became a Socialist , I remain a member of the Labour Party , I remain a Socialist , I 'm a trade unionist , I wo n't give up my Labour Party membership and I wo n't give up my involvement to my trade union and my linkage between the trade union movement and the Labour Party without a fight . |
| 26 | I 'm sick to death of them cluttering up my hall like that . |
| 27 | Had I taken up my station on the same day two , three or even four hundred years earlier the same spectacle would have presented itself , completely unchanged . |
| 28 | So she went to her other detention and there was another note saying , had to pick up my child from school . |
| 29 | I pick up my jacket with the back of my hand and open the door , then realize that there is still one box I have n't looked in — the Quaker Oats box that I was sitting on . |
| 30 | As I pick up my jacket from the Sarson 's Malt Vinegar box which I seem to have appointed as coat-rack , I pull the lid up with it . |