Example sentences of "you [vb past] up " in BNC.

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1 Si Wu Ya looked up at it and shivered , anxious now .
2 Ye tore up the prescription . ’
3 It would have been easy for you to lose five pounds ’ worth of lead as you saddled up .
4 You checked up on me ! ’
5 ‘ Was n't it lucky you met up with them ? ’
6 When you accelerated towards the light coming from the front , you met up with the humps and dips faster-they appeared to be squashed up together .
7 It 's always the same with enchanted castles , ’ said Snodgrass , as if , thought Fenella , only vaguely listening , enchantments were the sort of thing you met up with every day .
8 I suppose it was just by sheer chance you met up with Hilary Frome , was it ? ’
9 You met up again every so often , as she and Florian had done now .
10 I was delighted you met up with over half term .
11 the er sweets and er chocolates etcetera that er we received , erm I think we in fact er , erm yeah well I , we obviously appreciate them very much because er they were something that we a lot of and erm I know that er , that you must know that when you er were out in Ipswich , Framlingham or around about that er you met up a group , there was a group of children and I 'm sure you heard the er familiar up , chum .
12 Jackets made goal-posts , and : ‘ If you went down you got up with a lump of a cinder in your knee . ’
13 Now — you woke up with a sense of relief and surprise that you were still there , you got up , brushed your teeth , and before you knew it you were watching television .
14 ‘ Time you got up , ’ Dad said , ‘ and got going . ’
15 On awakening it will rise from five to ten beats a minute , and during the day it will rise gradually and may be up to ten beats higher at bedtime than it was when you got up in the morning .
16 You saw it , did n't you , when you got up to go upstairs ?
17 If you got up to fetch another cup of tea or coffee , you were liable to find that your plate had been cleaned out while you had been away .
18 If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’
19 Well now I 'd often wondered what you got up to when I left you here . ’
20 If you wan na make a point about that well well we 'll point about them erm there is er a comment erm in this erm erm yeah on paragraph , paragraphs four and five , page five the first of we will buy them including all the legislation that will reduce and if you got up to page three , paragraph six there 's a claim that levels are eight percent higher on the same money !
21 ‘ Last year , at the twentieth anniversary dinner of the first Frazier fight , you got up to speak and you ended up talking for probably ten minutes .
22 And always on a Sunday morning , when you got up , Sunday morning , epsom salts .
23 You got up in the early morning and helped in the farm , milked the cows , fed my cows and calves and looked the pigs , and then you 'd hens and chickens and the pet lambs and things like that .
24 I trust you , you 're not a fool , you know what could happen if you got up to some mischief out there , ’ and her fingers described general obloquy with a sweeping gesture of abolition , ‘ and then you 'll never get a husband either .
25 You never knew what you were in for when you got up in the morning .
26 You could never believe just how big such places were until you got up close .
27 It 's time you got up .
28 I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar
29 The the first question is this is this thing about nerves is n't it because that 's the first feeling you have when you got up get up here is and as said I 'm dry already and I have n't even been up there and done it yet the voice is dry and you know then you feel a bit shaky and all that sort of thing and why do we why do we feel nervous ?
30 Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee .
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