Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 2 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |
| 3 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 4 | This huge chamber is reached by a short spiral staircase which leads up a few feet beyond the gallery door in room 64 . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
| 6 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 7 | Is it enough to assume you are comparatively fit because you walk up a few stairs or stretch and bend a little as you go about your household chores ? |
| 8 | But did n't you come up a few days before us ? |
| 9 | Did you manage by pick did you pick up a few words yourself ? |
| 10 | Maybe if we set up a few committees , something will happen . ’ |
| 11 | We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls . |
| 12 | Maxim had them set up a few yards away , thanked the boys gravely , and they sat down . |
| 13 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 14 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 15 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 16 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 17 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 18 | It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines . |
| 19 | Turry has to be the best-armed hero of all time and when he picks up a few power-ups you 'd think he was invincible . |
| 20 | He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed . |
| 21 | So it is n't a bad idea at this stage of the season for us to conjure up a few exercises to test receding intellectual fibre . |