Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 2 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 3 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 4 | If it 's any consolation to you I needed to check up on a patient anyway . |
| 5 | Now I struggled to come up with a good word or phrase to describe that , but the one we use for now is multicultural . |
| 6 | Luckily I managed to warm up on a few business trips ! |
| 7 | ‘ I wonder what dreadful thing I did to end up as a human being ? ’ |
| 8 | feet of the cow was not in the original photograph so I had to go up to a a farm and ask for straw to hide the |
| 9 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 10 | The alarm was raised when she failed to turn up for a meeting with students . |
| 11 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 12 | To get the tickets you had to sign up for a complete tour and hospitality package , available through Travelforce , a travel agency in Durban — of which the then President of the Natal Rugby Union , and member of the Executive of the ( former ) SARB , just happened to be a director . |
| 13 | She wanted to curl up in a small ball somewhere quiet , dark and safe , and stay there until she felt capable of facing the world again . |
| 14 | We had to put up with a succession of dead grannies , occult trivia , psychic charades , aura readings and attempts to probe the future . |
| 15 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 16 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |
| 17 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 18 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 19 | Entranced by the aphrodisiacs in his prawn cocktail , McAvennie began to visit his new girl every weekend , flying to the London nightlife and eventually provoking a dispute with Celtic manager Billy McNeill when he failed to show up for a Monday morning training session . |
| 20 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 21 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 22 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 23 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 24 | It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed . |
| 25 | Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died . |
| 26 | because that , he wanted to go up for a medical which was a bit erm , unethical , but I do n't know whether it 's true it 's , you know it 's just what someone said |