Example sentences of "so [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say the way to a man 's heart is through his stomach , so pick up an elegant Gentleman 's Gift Tray from Waitrose at £13.50 . |
| 2 | Other researchers think it is more likely that the fish remember the chemical composition of their home stream , and so pick up its scent in the open ocean . |
| 3 | With Chrissie so shaken up , it would be good to have a second voice in the Stones ' house that could exert some control over the eleven-year-old . |
| 4 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 5 | I 'm terribly sorry everything got so buggered up . |
| 6 | Only everything 's been so buggered up today in general … , ’ |
| 7 | One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’ |
| 8 | A good catalogue , therefore , makes life easy for its user , and so builds up the supplier 's reputation . |
| 9 | John Major 's Val Doonican acts may have been adjudged less successful than the soapbox orations which have so cheered up both his party and himself . |
| 10 | It is a lot easier these days , so make up a little cocktail of compatible systemic insecticide and fungicide , plus a drip or two of washing-up detergent to achieve a good wetting , in a small bowl , and swish the two leaves of each cutting in the solution so that they get a good wetting and protective coating . |
| 11 | I 'm not leaving you on the Moor by — yourself , so make up your mind which you prefer . " |
| 12 | It must be a child , by twelve noon , so make up your mind . |
| 13 | So make up your mind kiddies . |
| 14 | Although the rules only allow the purchase of one new free-standing AVC policy a year , it is possible to purchase a different policy every year , so building up a spread of investments . |
| 15 | Also on the competition front one lucky reader will be flying off to the sunny Bahamas for her honeymoon — so hurry up and enter , it might just be you ! |
| 16 | Jonathan , Jonathan , dad wants to watch the news in a minute please , so hurry up and change it over You 'd think they 'd save that You do n't know , I would n't be surprised you will well that 's marvellous is n't it ? |
| 17 | Few experts can beat the market in the long run , so keeping up with it is a reasonable option . |
| 18 | So top up when you can , rather than stripping off old varnish and starting again . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was so keyed up , his reaction to Lomax 's warning shout was instantaneous . |
| 21 | what to do when you stand up there like an idiot so to sum up that the three most important things the span of conception nerves and clusters . |
| 22 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 23 | Indeed , he is at his most virulent when attacking his fellow-poets , so caught up is he in the seriousness of the poetic task . |
| 24 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 25 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 26 | As participants , we often do not understand what is going on in the interchange , so caught up are we with our own agendas . |
| 27 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 28 | I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb . |
| 29 | They were both so caught up in developments at Crystal Springs that it was sometimes hard for Christina to recall that Stephen still had a stake in a totally separate business empire in England — one that Robert seemed to be finding increasingly hard to administer in his partner 's prolonged absence , though Stephen still kept a very firm grip on English events from Barbados . |
| 30 | But at the moment I 'm so caught up with our construction problems I do n't see myself having the time for months ahead . |