Example sentences of "[pron] up to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent weeks nerving himself up to get a big whale picture , or maybe a dolphin . |
| 2 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 3 | I can understand like you picking one up to get rid of it if you 're not scared of it , but playing with one , keeping it as a pet ! |
| 4 | Looking back at the crowd at the foot of the great stone double staircase , she suddenly caught sight of the familiar blonde head of her daughter and called the nursemaid , who was holding her up to get a better view of all the excitement , to bring her over . |
| 5 | We had to phone her up to get the number . |
| 6 | We had to phone her up to get the code . |
| 7 | It was well known that the foreman and the shop steward in question were always in dispute , and it appeared to the majority that the foreman had , in fact , set him up to get rid of him and to settle an old account . |
| 8 | A simple mount is invaluable , and it is best to set it up to get the wing-tip in the top corner of the frame . |
| 9 | I missed it when I gave it up to get married . |
| 10 | She said her name was Liz , she was a friend of the family , and she had done some nursing once , a long time ago , but gave it up to get married . |
| 11 | That does n't last for ever , and it 's not easy to psych yourself up to get another job after you 've been given the push . |