Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The right hand route , Call of Nature , moves out on jugs to reach a crack and finishes up this . |
| 6 | He then looks up this time in a reference book to find out which lighthouse flashes in this way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Keith holds up both hands , fingers out to quiet them . |
| 14 | Eats up all the little ones , cocky ruff and such like . ’ |
| 15 | A controversial bill normally uses up all the available time on a Friday and other bills due to be considered on that day fail for lack of time . |
| 16 | It uses up all the gaps in between the gaps . |
| 17 | Go put a poultice or something on Simon 's eye before he uses up all the raw meat in the kitchen . ’ |
| 18 | It puts formulae in , that 's very useful , as I say it 's formulae uses up most memory , but it does n't put everything . |
| 19 | ‘ If he digs up any more plants , ’ Mrs Ames said , smiling , ‘ I shall be very angry . ’ |
| 20 | ( It is difficult for him … the incoming mail has become inaccessible until he frees up some of his allocated disk capacity ) . |
| 21 | Another way is to give five points to the team which finishes first and ten to the team which fills up more of the bottle in a single round . |
| 22 | The problem , however , was that although efficiency demanded that an inspector be experienced and the commissioners , Fullerton believed , would appoint his son if they were permitted , ‘ they are actuated in all these matters by the influence of the Earle of Isla , who often fills up these employments at London without any presentments ’ . |
| 23 | Wakes up each day demanding ‘ What is fresh in the market ? ’ , buys only the best , and creates a superb , no-choice menu — reaffirming her customers ' belief in her quality every day . |
| 24 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 25 | This form of prayer , then , gathers up all our experiences and takes them to the King of Kings , and we think about them in his presence — all the hurts , all the joys , all that stops us becoming the kind of persons we feel called to be . |
| 26 | Here in Canada we are badly isolated from regular contact with soccer , so when it comes time for the World Cup , the cable sports network dredges up some living bodies to do the commentary . |
| 27 | The flip , ‘ Peacock Dub ’ , shows up all the ‘ Sexual Healing ’ elements of the groove and is recommended to all Radio 2 DJs . |
| 28 | Going from the ridiculously sublime to the sublimely ridiculous , another visionary — this time very much of our present day and very well known indeed — shows up this month on Greene St. He is , of course , Saul Steinberg , Horace of the high-heeled , poet of the pot-holed urban scene , cicerone to the foibles of the national consciousness . |
| 29 | In performance , the first two are prone to bouts of noisy , head-splitting virtuosity , and Third mercilessly shows up those who fail to integrate this volatility into music of a more obviously poetic nature , and the Fourth is one of those elusive late pieces , whose rarefied world is closed to all but the most sensitive of artists . |
| 30 | Yeah have you seen when he blows up that guy ? |