Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I decided to give up one sugar and you know , I have to take it sort of weak weaker anyway . |
| 2 | I meant to phone up this morning for an appointment for Doctor , but I forgot all about it . |
| 3 | I knew I did n't deserve his patience ; I had to think up some justification of my silliness , so I said , " They 'll all notice , " which was something that had n't been worrying me up to then . |
| 4 | I was attacked too , and I had to get up next morning and tell my daughter , she did n't have a daddy any more . |
| 5 | For a brief moment she tried to summon up some form of resistance , as if by an effort of will she could deny her immediate instinctive reaction to his dark enchantment . |
| 6 | It was true , Uncle Max had said many times that if she decided to take up general practice he 'd be only too happy to have her join him , but that was n't quite the same thing as actually being offered a job . |
| 7 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 8 | She had to keep up this act until well into old age ; there was a tacit understanding that her decline should be ignored , and that poems , tributes and honours of all kinds should still be heaped upon her as though she were a beautiful young Princess . |
| 9 | She was annoyed to discover that Wendy was not in fact married to Ken : it meant she had to tear up one certificate and start making out another . |
| 10 | But you wanted to come up this way . |
| 11 | If you wanted to send up any Christmas present to them in advance , I am sure would help with something small if you drop it off . |
| 12 | She expected Nicole to name a restaurant , but instead she named the hotel where she was staying , one of the more expensive hotels in London , and they arranged to meet up that afternoon , in her room . |
| 13 | But Hitler 's prophecy , highly significant though it appears in retrospect , was at the time probably taken much for granted by most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans in the context of the ever more overtly radical anti-Jewish policy of the regime — a ‘ prophecy ’ so commonplace in its sentiments that it scarcely prompted the need for exultant expressions of praise , just as it failed to stir up any animosity or repulsion . |
| 14 | and he managed to pick up this prostitute , who only took cos business was slow . |
| 15 | When I mentioned this to my father he said he had to drive up that way and would take me in the car and call back for me within a couple of hours . |