Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I I held up a traffic jam of about sixty cars doing that . |
| 2 | last week , I I cleared up every day |
| 3 | So that I the last time I was down there and I they opened up the door to go and get some cos they had hundreds in there . |
| 4 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 5 | The verdict It wants greasin ’ was repeated to the dealer ; but as he was a Suffolk man himself he summed up the situation in a moment . |
| 6 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 7 | This exercise was perhaps most illuminating in the way in which it showed up the nerve ( or lack of it ) of the existing contractors ’ managements ; and the results demonstrated the inherent impossibility of combining apparently objective cash criteria with inevitably subjective judgements of quality . |
| 8 | Erm and various people like that you see and it seemed to sort of you you went up the scale . |
| 9 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
| 10 | It was she who took up the trays Anna would n't touch when she kept to her room and had sent for her trunks . |
| 11 | ‘ It was you who brought up the subject , ’ he pointed out crisply . |
| 12 | Physics , I was often told , was a ‘ general degree ’ , one which opened up a range of possibilities ; it was also , many students said , ‘ one of the best degrees you can get ’ . |
| 13 | Not when I was there of course it was er it was er er radio was there you know and we we called up the shore station at Ered at nine o'clock one o'clock and five o'clock every day unless there was er a fault in the radio which we were usually able to overcome . |
| 14 | There was a freshness and gaiety about her which lit up the brothel , making it appear dismal by comparison . |
| 15 | Well they just er they just forked them they they brought up the side what I said the boss , you see . |
| 16 | Wolfgang spent a great deal of time in the company of J C Bach , with whom he struck up a friendship , and who was delighted to engage in amicable improvisation contests on the keyboard . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , what was it you rang up the Yard to tell me ? ’ |
| 18 | And in the end it was he who turned up a bullet case ( 7.62 mm x 51 and therefore probably FAKINTIL ) . |
| 19 | But then anyone who picked up a book entitled Does God Exist ? hoping to come away with the answer is liable to be disappointed . |
| 20 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |