Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 2 | The tour set for twelve to eighteen months starting in summer 1993 and sales of a catalogue with colour reproductions of Barnes works , are expected to bring in funds for renovating the foundation 's gallery building and bringing its operations up to modern standards . |
| 3 | Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example . |
| 4 | She held her eyelashes up with two fingers to curl them . |
| 5 | The nation is haunted by what happened in 1940 , when it metaphorically came out with its hands up as Soviet tanks rolled in while world war was raging . |
| 6 | By day she holes up in remote dens away from human habitation . |
| 7 | He saved all his problems up for sympathetic women who were not about to write a piece on him . |
| 8 | He now needed to learn his tables up to six times and also be able to do multiplication , addition , subtraction and division , tens and units , shillings and pence and have a basic knowledge of simple weights and lengths . |
| 9 | Rest with your feet up for 15 minutes , then use tissues to blot excess . |