Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get int car , and it 's warm so I end up switching heater and winding window down . |
| 2 | It maybe faithful for a long time , perhaps you build up that trust , and it 's only once you 've got beyond that , that you can then begin to actually influence er , negotiate with them . |
| 3 | So you pick up these things . |
| 4 | So you set up some sort of indent . |
| 5 | So they pick up full speed and run for cover — and your net should be carefully positioned so they hit it just before reaching safety . |
| 6 | So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse . |
| 7 | So they make up this game with negative numbers but it works very well it 's very useful . |
| 8 | So they packed up some pears and pineapples — set off well before the light hours |
| 9 | Tonight we take up that challenge . |
| 10 | You see how quickly I pick up English ways of talking . |
| 11 | When the novelty of criticism began to wear off we set up rival fringe performances . |
| 12 | Well I bought up three children |
| 13 | Well I reckoned up this morning we reckoned it 'll perhaps be at fifty two , but we were wrong were n't we ? |
| 14 | Four years ago she set up American Express offices at ICI Billingham and Wilton , and now has a staff of 24 , operating five days a week selling holidays to chemical workers She said : ‘ We 're probably one of the largest offices in the area . |
| 15 | Well think , did n't she give up last year ? she said something about it last year on radio , on no smoking day . |
| 16 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 17 | Oh do n't they go up that way then ? |
| 18 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 19 | Well he come up last Friday but you were n't in . |
| 20 | William Lambarde loved Halling and during his time here he built up good relations . |
| 21 | ‘ Then I woke up one summer morning-it was still dark , the birds were just starting their dawn chorus , and on that particular day there seemed only to be crows — and I felt very cold . |
| 22 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 23 | We reached Afdam Station on 19 December , four days after leaving Bahdu , and from there I went up next day by train to Addis Ababa . |
| 24 | Perhaps it 's a one-off you made yourself or had made for you , or maybe you run up spectacular gowns as a matter of course . |
| 25 | Then she tore up this letter , and the two or three which followed it , and burned them in the fire . |
| 26 | See how we dressed up some visitors to Clothes Show Live |
| 27 | Then they set up fifteen study groups , each of which was charged with designing a new state for one of the fifteen suggestions . |
| 28 | and have it back Saturday and then they ring up two hours later saying it 's another week and a half again |
| 29 | Well then he rung up few weeks ago and he said to June , we 'll need a car for a week . |
| 30 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |