Example sentences of "[verb] up people " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Bowie : ‘ I ran into a very strange type of paranoid person when I was doing ‘ Aladdin Sane ’ very mixed up people , and I got very upset . |
| 2 | He witnessed Vaughan 's resentment of Johnny 's Circus , also the way in which Minton , like a piece of Sellotape , automatically picked up people when he went into a pub . |
| 3 | The industry is also interested in signing up people in Brazil to write programs ( Brazil boasts a large number of Japanese emigres ) . |
| 4 | It is just a decision that two grown up people have come to . ’ |
| 5 | Bandaging up people when they 'd been hur-hur-hur — ’ |
| 6 | Is this print picking up people who have n't had a price increase then ? |
| 7 | It 's picking up people who do n't have end date . |
| 8 | It was n't difficult to pick up people for casual sex but it was difficult to transfer that casual sex contact into any sort of relationship . |
| 9 | Rory had been able to leave his car when he thought he was getting warm , and walk up people 's drives until he found the pea-green Polo Fox . |
| 10 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 11 | I should hate a sister said Sally , I would n't share my mother with anyone , she walked out of the room her face as wooden as ever , the girls were really puzzled , she 's a funny one said Irene , hardly ever says anything , all closed up , somehow , but sometimes those closed up people burst open suddenly and then look out , well I 'll shall certainly write and tell mother she 's mistaken said Daryl and she did so . |
| 12 | The first task that we have is to present ourselves and that way we can get into the papers and on to the TV and smash those trends that are destroying things , sucking up people 's blood . |
| 13 | Mr Merlyn Rees as Labour Home Secretary had given voice to the more usually reticent position early in 1978 when he charged Mrs Thatcher with ‘ an irresponsible and dangerous approach to law and order … whipping up people 's fears in a ‘ cynical ’ ’ attempt to win votes ' . |
| 14 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 15 | Very difficult indeed , you did n't like calling up people at a private house and ask if we could use the phone . |
| 16 | Well they want to move it they want to develop the area and er now they 're talking as well about taking the trees out from around there too which is really getting up people 's noses it would seem . |
| 17 | Then he threw in the spice and seasoning : ‘ By stirring up people 's fears unnecessarily , jobs have been endangered by the Labour Opposition . ’ |
| 18 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 19 | The question is , whether the culture of Italy is one that throws up people who will be public spirited , who will make good trustees while allowing the curators to get on with their work . |
| 20 | While the equipment is being set up people come in from their work outside and visitors start arriving from up and down the Whanganui river . |
| 21 | It was left to other more prominent and vocal members of the Labour party to stir up people 's fears with irrelevant and inaccurate claims about the consequences . |
| 22 | Later on I worked on the twilight shift in a components factory and as our kids grew up people moved out and others moved in . |
| 23 | T V , on the whole , generates material for itself , and makes little forays out into your territory and picks up people . |
| 24 | Datapro Canada , Unican and UniForum Canada are holding the Fourth Annual Executive Symposium on Open Systems & Client/Server Computing at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto April 6 to 8 : they 've rounded up people like Doug Michels of Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Roel Pieper of Unix System Laboratories Inc , John Paul of Compaq Computer Corp , Jon Gossels of the Open Software Foundation , Bill O'Shea of NCR Corp , Heinz Lycklama of Open Systems Technology Associates and George Shaffner of X/Open Co Ltd to speak . |
| 25 | Queer how it gets us , all women and no men , the way we let off steam , like being back at school again , lifting up people 's skirts in the cloakroom . |
| 26 | And Lucy had promised ; therefore she now said , ‘ I 'm sorry — I promised my mother I 'd never pick up people I do n't know . ’ |
| 27 | I had to explain him a bit first , because from meeting me you would n't necessarily be able to tell what my best friend was like , and Oliver can get up people 's nostrils . |
| 28 | It 'll be nice if you could summon up people like that on the phone wo n't it ? |
| 29 | For now Ted is concentrating on recording Des O'Connor 's new game show called Pot of Gold and he 's pleased that he 's regarded as one of the best in the trade at warming up people . |
| 30 | That sums up people 's views in a series of opinion surveys being carried out with Board backing by Group businesses around the world . |