Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 2 | Er and I think I came up with six negatives and and one very feeble positive . |
| 3 | I came up with these answers : |
| 4 | I move them and instead of having a good scuttle across the floor , I stand up on these legs in quite the wrong attitude . |
| 5 | I walked up to these fellers , a few paces , and just stood in front of them , looked at them — they knew what was wanted — ‘ Clear off ! ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes I spent up to six hours a day with her , just getting her ‘ streetwise ’ . |
| 7 | I rang up after two weeks and I spoke to the nurse and she said , oh , your cholesterol 's alright . |
| 8 | We shall see whether I 've learnt enough when I go up for those exams . |
| 9 | Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out . |
| 10 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |
| 11 | ‘ I grew up on these stories . |
| 12 | I come up with six points . |
| 13 | ‘ It was so late when we finished yesterday that I queued up for 20 minutes for a takeaway hamburger , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ I spend up to five hours a week playing Scrabble and I never get tired of the game , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I stood up for six questions , not least for question No. 3 , in which I have a constituency interest . |
| 16 | I know , I was I went up for some chips at the top |
| 17 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 18 | And , of course , I ended up with three tables instead of two ! |
| 19 | ‘ That 's funny , ’ said Aj , ‘ because the last time I did a project like this I ended up with three tractors in the lake . ’ |
| 20 | I ended up on three years ' probation . |
| 21 | We 're looking at sizes of nests bigger than dustbin bags , which service up to 25,000 wasps , which produce 4,000 to 5,000 Queens , which survive until next year . |
| 22 | In spite of the size and complexity of the companies examined , which ranged up to 10 divisions and 40 businesses , but in one case had 27 divisions and 150 businesses , all the planning departments considered scanning for environmental information about every business unit to be important . |
| 23 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 24 | There are also sets of tiles which build up into larger designs ( known as feature panels ) , and which can look quite striking when surrounded by an area of plain tiling . |
| 25 | Those which cost up to 2 times the yardstick rugs . |
| 26 | The card is equipped with 1 megabyte of VideoRAM which allows up to 32,000 colours to be displayed . |
| 27 | We now have access to the Sierra RAMDAC on many graphics cards , which allows up to 32,000 colours on screen at any time , usually limited to a resolution of 800x600 , and , with the right technology , can actually provide up to 65,536 colours onscreen , albeit at the VGA resolution of 640x80 . |
| 28 | Revolving loans — personal customers under this type of arrangement can borrow a multiple of monthly payment , e.g. £30 per month may be paid to the finance house which allows up to 15 times that amount to be borrowed ( £450 ) . |
| 29 | Adjoining is the York Suite which accommodates up to 30 guests . |
| 30 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |