Example sentences of "up [conj] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , when one of Ramon 's friends asked me to take a package to a friend of his in Berlin , I thought , well , I can make up that I have a job and cut my visit short because of it . |
| 2 | Yes erm I do n't know if I mentioned you a question properly er right there were young lads in there they be young lads in that lodge do this and they jump up and they make a decision quickly . |
| 3 | Alan was on the screen ; there were streaks of blood on his face , his arm was strapped up and he wore a blanket round his shoulders . |
| 4 | Then someone picked up and he heard a woman say a curt and cautious , ‘ Yes ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He tied me up and he had a knife . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt like I was escaping just to get in , ’ he reflected after his taxi failed to turn up and he got a lift from a receptionist at his hotel . |
| 7 | We hung up and I lit a cigarette before switching on the radio . |
| 8 | and you 're at A , let's say , let's say , North is that way , okay , and you you set this up and you have a look , you say , where 's that lighthouse , oh it 's on a bearing of forty five degrees , and a lot later when you 've sailed sort of past the lighthouse , or the lighthouse is behind you , you take a bearing , and you still go around clockwise , |
| 9 | Well it just winds up and it pushes a wedge forward and splays them out . |
| 10 | The 1947 Act permitted , not required , air pollution control districts to be set up and it introduced a programme to control pollution but at the same time keep industry in business as usual . |
| 11 | If you turn round and say , well you know you 're just putting us up until they get a place |
| 12 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 13 | Her throat swelled up until she needed a tracheotomy . |
| 14 | Then she added , — Sheila can put me up until I find a place . |
| 15 | okay , well one last thing , I start with the last thing at the beginning , strangely , I mean you 're obviously getting all the technical details and all the expertise from people who know far better than I do , so I 'm not going to go into much technical detail until perhaps a bit later , which might come up if we get a debate going or when I look at your press releases . |
| 16 | Well , I certainly will take it up if I get a copy letter , I mean it is obviously that some departments act differently , and I understand that in any case this is only a letter from the secretary , it 's not him , so I mean , I 'm quite happy to take it up if I get the copy of that , and explain that this department act , does rather differently from some of the others . |
| 17 | I used to get worked up if I made a mistake , I mean , I weave and a nervous breakdown spooling |
| 18 | The turn can be speeded up if you take a step back on the board and depress the windward rail . |
| 19 | That 's something else you 'd have to give up if you got a job , is n't it ? |
| 20 | ‘ Things have really sort of speeded up since I became a Muslim . |
| 21 | The ghouls had all been sent away and under the fierce new glare of naked lights , caretakers were clearing up while someone pushed a trolley of glass-eyed computer-monitors that got into everybody 's way . |
| 22 | On the UK mainland , two IRA bombers were blown up as they planted a bomb in St Albans , Hertfordshire , on Nov. 15 . |
| 23 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
| 24 | DOWN'N OUT POOR Mark Hughes slips up as he tries a shot in Moscow — and soon he had fallen from grace completely . |
| 25 | The costs mount up when you buy a home , and if you are selling too , your move can work out to be extremely expensive , requiring a large budget . |
| 26 | Electric bite alarms are useful for night fishing , and many night anglers I know would not fish without them , and no matter what they tell you to the contrary they are mainly used to wake you up when you have a bite ! |
| 27 | And you never say you 'd like to be taken out for a change , or ring him up when you want a bit of company ? ’ |
| 28 | William Wordsworth nearly two hundred years ago , wrote this my heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky . |
| 29 | Well , I started , but packed up when I broke a fingernail . |
| 30 | Cruel shook up , she is now , like as you do n't need to be no doctor to see , but she were n't shook up when she got a job to do ! ’ |