Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7. aria lived just up Eastern Avenue — let's face it , half the world lives up Eastern Avenue — in Redbridge , in one of those huge roadside vicarage-like houses which has had to be turned into a rest home for the elderly because no one else could afford to pay the rates . |
| 2 | Soldier beats up four women |
| 3 | And he scrapes up all the soil , you see this , well Lindsay has n't got any soil , she 's just got grass , so obviously it go , comes round ! |
| 4 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 5 | Er she 's always and jigging about you know but when she plays very still and she hits the ball stands up quick , watches where it goes , she 'll go like this , this up jump |
| 6 | So , if this way of looking at the world is what starts up that vital fire in your imagination , then you would do well to take Watson 's top and have as your hero someone imbued with plenty of ordinary commonsense . |
| 7 | It starts up first |
| 8 | Mike Shell and Tony Sawbridge found Kathleen Turner ( HVS ) on the Outer St James Stone , and in Short Story Zawn , In One Bound E2 5c , starts up Big Shiner then traverses right onto the face left of Tall Story . |
| 9 | Pauline rings up last week , sent me a fax er with the schedule on and there was the seven O one Os were missing off it so I rang up and said , you know , we 've not got any schedule on these two bearings Pauline . |
| 10 | The also the big rotary blades on 'em are throwing all the grass over the pavement and all over the road and eventually finishes up all down the drains . |
| 11 | 3 After a few minutes , the mind can not cope with the speed , and one partner usually finishes up tangled in a knot . |
| 12 | The right hand route , Call of Nature , moves out on jugs to reach a crack and finishes up this . |
| 13 | He then looks up this time in a reference book to find out which lighthouse flashes in this way . |
| 14 | ‘ See you , ’ I say and escape to City Road , where an off-licencee is opening and looks up surprised to see an office yuppie ( his definition ) among the line of winoes so early in the morning-o ! |
| 15 | To cash up , the assistant adds up all the contents of the till ( including gift vouchers , cheques etc ) and fills out a cashing up slip like the one below . |
| 16 | To convert the pre-1975 national insurance stamps to the new system , the DHSS adds up all the stamps paid and credited before 1975 , and divides them by 50 . |
| 17 | But Graham knows his dilemma lies up front with his side 's lack of goals . |
| 18 | Caldicot tees up municipal crown |
| 19 | Caldicot tees up municipal crown |
| 20 | One person holds up each of the objects in turn and says ‘ This is a thing , a very pretty thing , what must the owner do to receive it ? ’ |
| 21 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 22 | Raider holds up sub-post office |
| 23 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 24 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 25 | Keith holds up both hands , fingers out to quiet them . |
| 26 | ARIES DRESSES UP FIRST HYPERSPARC-BASED WORKSTATION FOR ITS PUBLIC DEBUT AT UNIFORUM |
| 27 | He 's famous he 's got a wife he 's normally on the news he 's posh and he dresses up smart he writes he writes papers out . |
| 28 | He 's famous he 's got a wife he 's normally on the news he 's posh and he dresses up smart he writes he writes papers out . |
| 29 | Those last clues , He 's posh and he dresses up smart somebody rang and is it Dennis , no . |
| 30 | He 's famous he 's got a wife he 's normally on the news he 's posh and he dresses up smart he writes he writes papers out . |