Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fairness to those whose questions come further down the Order Paper , I propose now to speed up a bit . |
| 2 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 3 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I think I 'd better wash up the breakfast things , if you do n't mind . |
| 5 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 6 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 7 | I dashed straight back up the road to my own house , rang Paul and told him I 'd definitely have one , and maybe two . |
| 8 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |
| 9 | And I 've already fixed up a local lass to come and clean up for you every day . ’ |
| 10 | I think I 've just sewn up a deal on a new account . ’ |
| 11 | I can , as yet , rate only the cheaper of these because I have yet to summon up the chutzpah to ask Tesco to send me all their other examples to sample . |
| 12 | Q I have recently set up a four foot tank which I furnished with rocks , caves and bogwood . |
| 13 | It is available from SIB which has also set up a Home Income Scheme Help Desk . |
| 14 | Prodded by de Gaulle , Pinay created a secret committee , chaired by Rueff , which worked quickly to draw up a plan . |
| 15 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |
| 16 | When the procession , which had now picked up a large following , reached Grassgill End the effigy was placed on a small stone area at the roadside , its clothes were drenched with paraffin and it was set alight . |
| 17 | The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development . |
| 18 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 19 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 20 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 21 | She has successfully set up a resource centre for materials from Christian Aid and the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund . |
| 22 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 23 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 24 | She leaned forward to pick up a cigarette box . |
| 25 | because you can go down in your first line move to the first letter o , after the number , hit the tab key and you 've actually lined up the first line along with the rest of your paragraph . |
| 26 | If you 've ever picked up a real handmade lute , you 'll know the feeling . |
| 27 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 28 | The bed was untidy , as though she had merely pulled up the covers . |
| 29 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 30 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |