Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 2 | You 're a right mixed up fucker . |
| 3 | The Christian Bible with its progression from a wholly imaginary Garden of Eden to an authentically historical Roman Empire by way of a geographically very mixed up Land of Egypt and Land of Canaan is prototypical of a species of origin saga which can be encountered in all parts of the world among all kinds of people . |
| 4 | No , I 've just rung up Viking to get some box sealing tape and , and this here , he , he said is your name T manager , what is the name of your business ? |
| 5 | from the paper bank and four hundred pounds worth of grant , two hundred from the county council and two hundred from the district council , so added up car park . |
| 6 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 7 | The presence of a population of seldom fewer than 2,000 cormorants , 20,000 gulls ( including the rarest of all gulls , Saunders ' gull ) , 15,000 ducks , 5,000 herons and 10,000 waders must have conjured up nightmare pictures of the risk of birdstrikes . |
| 8 | But it should be news based on fact , not conjured up disinformation designed to damage estranged spouses or commercial competitors , ’ he added . |
| 9 | It would also be better from the point of view of traffic — she had n't yet looked up Hallborough on a map , but she guessed she would need her car to get to it . |
| 10 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 11 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 12 | They could always have had the church watched and perhaps picked up Zoser when he came out . |
| 13 | The networking company has signed an agreement with Hudson , Massachusetts-based Gradient Technologies Inc , which has already picked up support from the likes of IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 14 | Qualix Inc has picked up Adobe Systems Inc 's TransScript software for distribution : the software is designed to enable Unix programs to print to PostScript output devices . |
| 15 | Qualix Inc has picked up Adobe 's TransScript software for distribution : the software allows Unix programs to print to Postscript devices . |
| 16 | Also insulate the walls , and eliminate as many draughts as possible , Try to avoid water drips from the roof , as they could have picked up asbestos particles . |
| 17 | In Place 's pocket it had picked up fluff and minute scraps of human skin and hair . |
| 18 | The candidate dubbed himself ‘ the comeback kid ’ and his campaign steadily picked up steam . |
| 19 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 20 | Among the equipment was a maritime receiver that automatically picked up ship transmissions while continuously scanning a preset frequency range and recorded everything on tape , including the position of each vessel . |
| 21 | The Glasgow shop ( 1,600 sq ft , 4 full time , 2 part time ) is managed by Brownie Gray , who , my rep friend surmises , has picked up trade which formerly went to Holmes and Grants . |
| 22 | ( Charles may have picked up malaria in Italy in 875 : he was seriously ill from late July to mid-August 876 , and from December 876 to January 877 . |
| 23 | Corollary Inc has picked up Truger Technologies Inc in Canada and PC Distributing Inc out of Illinois to distribute its communications and multiprocessing lines . |
| 24 | The EWGM probe was almost insensitive to gamma radiation ( only about 0.3% of the radiation detected by the scintillation probe was detected by the EWGM probe ) , whereas the scintillation probe also picked up beta radiation ( about 20% of the counts detected by the EWGM probe ) . |
| 25 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she answered , hiding beneath a pleasant smile of her own as she went to the desk , that her heartbeats had suddenly picked up speed . |
| 27 | It would , however , have been interesting to see what relationships might have been revealed had WIRS picked up information on casual workers , since casual working ( albeit involving direct employment ) is also a considerably less regulated form of temporary working and gives an employer considerable disposition over his labour inputs . |
| 28 | Likewise computer king David Goldman and Newcastle 's ‘ Fishfinger ’ Ken Bell have picked up Labour 's red rose and backed Mr Kinnock . |
| 29 | one time they had this big trolley of all smashed up Easter eggs and me and my mum kept running up to it and nicking bits of chocolate |
| 30 | The boss , Mr. Uphill , always had his sleeves rolled up way past the elbows — whether for comfort or to exhibit the many tattoos which covered his arms is anyone 's guess . |