Example sentences of "they [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | in a trot but er I might just have this and none of them would win , I 've only , I would only praise them guessed up or that way or |
| 2 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 3 | It occurs to me we 're just about to circulate the picture of that man , Stein , suspected of wholesale fraud — so maybe we get them mixed up , Kurt . ’ |
| 4 | Beginners in Japlish use that sound for both ‘ l ’ and ‘ r ’ , but more advanced speakers learn to distinguish between the two so that they can get them mixed up . |
| 5 | There you go , just do n't get them mixed up , aye . |
| 6 | It was like nett and gross ; he always got them mixed up . |
| 7 | got them mixed up . |
| 8 | I can see them perched up there now , swinging their legs . |
| 9 | The next time through we have them picked up and lo and behold they 've got a suitcase full of heroin . |
| 10 | allusion to the legend of Sweeney Todd , ‘ the demon barber of Fleet Street ’ who was supposed to cut his customer 's throats , and then have them made up into meat pies . |
| 11 | He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . |
| 12 | I let my wife buy Harris and Cheviot lengths for winter when she 's in London , but I never allow her to have them made up for herself . |
| 13 | She had had them made up to order while in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 15 | It must of taken them years to get them made up to look even vaguely |
| 16 | Until well into the eighteen forties , they did n't actually buy dresses , they bought lengths of cloth and had them made up , either by a member of the household — a servant perhaps , or more often by a dressmaker , either a couturier or the local dressmaker . |
| 17 | But none of them turned up to today so |
| 18 | Of course he needed to finance so improbable a research programme , so he sold his dragons to an Emperor , who had them minced up and served to him garnished with spit-roasted swallows ' tongues , at one of his less important banquets . |
| 19 | do n't get them muddled up there , cos they look the same , aagh , put that bleeding pussy cat down ooh ah , ah , pull your trousers up , you 're gon na sing hi , ho again are you ? |
| 20 | The names were vaguely familiar ; he fancied he had seen them written up in gold lettering upon an office window in Stepney . |
| 21 | ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling . |
| 22 | That should get them stirred up . ’ |
| 23 | Eight hundred thousand — imagine them drawn up down there on the sea — eight hundred thousand candles all blown out in one gigantic breath . |
| 24 | Progress charts are evident in all areas of the company , measuring quality improvements and waste reduction , many of them drawn up by the production staff . |
| 25 | Are we going to have er , erm , are we going to have some kind of reporting system , so that if a hunt actually enters erm , one of our fields , we 're going to start denouncing tenants and have them hauled up in front of a disciplinary committee ? . |
| 26 | I did n't see , I just saw them lit up last , all last night lit up . |
| 27 | But a doctor , one of the doctors in the same hospital saying , that the , during the First World War , when they were so desperate , you know , so many casualties , they had to cut short treatment , and they had to bandage men up and leave them bandaged up a long length of , they found it was often better to leave a wound bandaged up in it 's own |
| 28 | You 've already got them counted up . |
| 29 | I mean , I realize you 've probably got them pinned up by your bed , but |
| 30 | He had them set up his bier at the end of the hall , draped in black velvet , and its handles tasselled in black and gold . |