Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She mustered up as much dignity as she possibly could and stood up , not chancing another look at Piers 's face . |
| 10 | Did you come up here last night like ? |
| 11 | Yeah yeah that 's a good one that I do n't think that one came up either last time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |
| 18 | Then I store the magazines in the bottom of the wardrobe as they take up too much space in my knitting room . |
| 19 | City will welcome a return to home territory after three successive away games , which have seen them pick up only one point from the draw at Carlisle on Tuesday . |
| 20 | It uses up as much memory as any maximum column on the right that uses memory . |
| 21 | The crux of the debate , therefore , is not whether social service expenditure encourages consumption and hence economic growth but rather at what stage and under what economic conditions it uses up so much labour , capital and other resources that it ‘ crowds out ’ the manufacturing industries . |
| 22 | ‘ Well ? ’ she asked him , when he showed up again that night . |
| 23 | It takes up very little space and makes a room look substantial . |
| 24 | He took up too much space , like a baby cuckoo in someone else 's nest . |
| 25 | He went up there this year , I was up , this is true on God 's , I 'm in this chair he said , come on I 'll I 'm going now I 'm gon na get my , I had to go I had to go and get Rififi , a filly called Rififi I did . |
| 26 | " It took up too much space Malcolm said and nothing would grow near it . " |
| 27 | However , the two of them stayed up late last night , drinking my best booze , and this morning Em 's been slamming doors quite a bit , and giving me dirty looks . |
| 28 | Uncle Willi wanted us to dress up specially this evening , because of Therese Aschmann coming . ’ |
| 29 | Half a dozen of us went up there one night . ’ |