Example sentences of "[vb past] up a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And he whistled up his cohorts after you 'd gone , ’ Sam complained , ‘ and they came with wet-suits and grappling irons and a heavy magnet and dredged up a lot of muck from the dock . |
| 2 | On his release from prison in 1985 , Gusty Spence , the leader of the Shankill UVF and the man convicted of the Malvern St murder , was asked about Paisley 's role and he was frankly dismissive : ‘ I have no time for Paisley 's type of religious fervour or his politics but he had no involvement in re-forming the UVF though he stirred up a lot of tension at that time for his own ends . ’ |
| 3 | I agree with you that Mrs Thatcher is a representative of her class , first and foremost , but I think the way she was treated showed up a lot of rather unpleasant things about the er the political movements which opposed her . |
| 4 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 5 | She immediately sobered up a lot ! |
| 6 | Quite apart from the publicity such incidents provided , they also tied up a lot of ships and manpower . |
| 7 | But I mean it brought up a lot of things that we perhaps |
| 8 | He found that the canonry and the cathedral , and the administration in the university , took up a lot of time . |
| 9 | In his present situation , his difficulty in concentrating took up a lot of the teacher 's time . |
| 10 | It took up a lot of space , but the facts were few . |
| 11 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |
| 12 | I took up a lot of my daffs and started , erm erm I never take them up every year |
| 13 | which we certainly were n't doing , were we , in the last last year er review and the mechanics of the fax service we already thought that took up a lot of hours you know just putting , faxing them through , receiving them |
| 14 | Middlesbrough Town Hall RIDE grew up a lot in public in 1990 a year when bands like themselves and the Charlatans made it very big , very quickly . |
| 15 | ‘ The reason we did a video for ‘ Dipping ’ was because it conjured up a lot of images . |
| 16 | Packford summed up a lot of the negative reaction to left-wing journalism . |
| 17 | I picked up a lot about different species and their habitat , simply by listening to Maureen talk about the lifestyles of the birds she was looking after . |
| 18 | Erm , the buy who was gon na do it , unfortunately has eye trouble and er towards the beginning of the start , quite near to the start his er eye trouble picked up a lot more . |
| 19 | If you were keen and that well it was up to yourself a lot how you how you picked up a lot of things because if you were keen you could pick up anything you wanted if you were n't well that was just too bad it 's your own fault . |
| 20 | Joan picked up a lot of little incidentals that we did n't pick up . |