Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 3 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 4 | At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job . |
| 5 | Yeah I 'm sure you 'd packed up last time I saw you . |
| 6 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 7 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 8 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 9 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 10 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 11 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 12 | One day she had plucked up enough courage to look through the doorway , and had almost choked on the clouds of swirling dust . |
| 13 | Then , at last feeling fairly safe , she allowed herself to sink into the nearest chair , totally drained by everything that had happened since she had woken up this morning . |
| 14 | She certainly had n't expected anything like this when she had got up this morning . |
| 15 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 16 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 17 | She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads . |
| 18 | And I never knew there was actually a proper song to it , I thought it was one we 'd made up junior school . |
| 19 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 20 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 21 | Hopelessly outnumbered , they had charged up that slope , cutting and slashing their way through the serried ranks of Russian cavalry , forcing them back , back … |
| 22 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 23 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 24 | She could follow the shoreline all the way to where they had pulled up that afternoon looking for shelter , but that would take hours . |
| 25 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 26 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 27 | Oliver scowled at him and went behind the plant , muttering a spell he had made up that morning . |
| 28 | Gradually , repeating over and over that there had to be a simple explanation , he had summoned up enough confidence to take hold of the note again , and the feather . |
| 29 | He did not want to travel far on his first journey ; he would leave the darker , more mysterious corridors until later when he had built up enough courage . |
| 30 | Mr Tancock , who operates from Mannington Park in Swindon , refused to say if anyone had ever received loans from North Star , or to say why he had set up Global Finance . |