Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me catch up here some points left in suspension . |
| 2 | Although I dreamed and could thus distinguish sleep from death , although I woke up again each morning , the fear remained , and my sister 's death only served to strengthen it . |
| 3 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ My mates and I came up here one day when there was no English football , Christmas Eve I think , and I just got hooked , ’ he said at half time . |
| 5 | Er old Mrs I du n no , but th , anyway there was only this one old house up in the common and er I went up there one time with horse and take a couple of pigs from there down to Wimborne market . |
| 6 | I sat up weakly one morning , and the ship 's cabin had transmuted itself into a little square room in an isolated town in South America . |
| 7 | I sat up late last night and read the Geste as far as to where Beren and his gnomish allies defeat the patrol of orcs above the sources of the Narog and disguise themselves in the reaf [ Old English : ‘ garments , weapons taken from the slain ’ ] . |
| 8 | He rode into the valley of Borrowdale which opened up about two miles south of Keswick . |
| 9 | A levy on each package in German shops helps to pay for a waste-collection system , which picks up potentially recyclable household rubbish and hands it back to producer organisations . |
| 10 | The title of the conference is Old , but Safe , which sums up how most people regard older aircraft . |
| 11 | Fourthly , the CME 's independent traders ( locals ) who make up nearly three quarters of the membership feel threatened by this new technology . |
| 12 | You round up as many others — nurses , patients , whatever — as possible and get them together in as few rooms as you can . |
| 13 | As part of this , there is a set of enhanced commands which allow you to set up quite complex command lines for launching both DOS and Windows application within Windows . |
| 14 | She mustered up as much dignity as she possibly could and stood up , not chancing another look at Piers 's face . |
| 15 | Did you come up here last night like ? |
| 16 | The superintendent of police in my area has told me that , were we to round up about 150 people in the county of Cleveland , it would eradicate about 80 per cent . |
| 17 | We used up about six towels , and took ages , each of us , to scrub the bath afterwards . |
| 18 | The years go by and the Collector undoubtedly felt , as many of us feel , that one uses up so many options , so much energy , simply in trying to find out what life is all about . |
| 19 | Yeah yeah that 's a good one that I do n't think that one came up either last time . |
| 20 | The following evening , after a slogging nine-hour march over volcanic hills that threw up waves of heat , making me irritable and all of us tired and thirsty , we toiled up yet another rise and suddenly saw Lake Hertale below us . |
| 21 | And we 're getting three squares to the centimetre so we go up there two centimetres and we get the so if we go up every two squares |
| 22 | There was an old shooting range behind the farmhouse and we went up there one morning to put into practice all that we had learnt about explosives . |
| 23 | Exercise is n't a craze we take up seriously one day and dismiss as ‘ not for me ’ two weeks later because we 've overdone it . |
| 24 | You walk down this sort of , you go through some woods and this is how we ended up where these geese |
| 25 | We ended up almost two hours late . |
| 26 | Altogether on the trip we clocked up over 1800 miles . |
| 27 | We sat up late that night and other nights that hot summer in Al Ain , and the strain of Ramadan soon began to show in my young Sheikh 's face . |
| 28 | They made up almost forty percent of the army |
| 29 | well not directly , erm because the whole purpose of the divisionalization was to put the skill and expertise into each division , at the initial stage of erm divisionalization there were no other marketing people immediately in those other divisions , I was occasionally called on to assist but progressively as they built up there own marketing expertise then my needs were less , they needed me less . |
| 30 | But they grew up early these days . |