Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But when I pick her up from school I 'm not allowed to look around the other girls because I know her headmistress disapproves … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When I picked her up from the station , she had asked me about you and Nigger before we got into Berkeley . |
| 3 | When you screw it up on top of your head it makes you look like that woman out of South Pacific , the one who sings ‘ Bali Ha'i ’ or whatever . ’ |
| 4 | in the bottom of the cup , it just when you hold the cup up to the light , the picture comes through , you know it 's , the shape and the colours come through when you hold it up to the light |
| 5 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 6 | ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions . |
| 7 | I suppose it 's lot of money when you reckon it up into today 's value . |
| 8 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
| 9 | Well we have done I felt sorry cos I had n't really when she phoned me up over there I was up I thought oh my God ! |
| 10 | When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed . |
| 11 | When we put them up in our house , they make everything look quite different . |
| 12 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 13 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 14 | And despite Wednesday 's 2–0 cup collapse to Cookstown , coach Mark Sinnamon insists his young warriors can come through their toughest test since the 1986 Irish Senior Cup final when they pulled themselves up by the bootlaces to beat Three Rock Rovers . |
| 15 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 16 | And he says , when he gets it up to sixty mile an hour on t' motorway it 's still vibrating . |
| 17 | His voice did n't sound at all unfriendly though , not like that tone he uses when he catches me up on the table eating the butter . |
| 18 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 19 | I felt such a fool when he picked me up like that . |
| 20 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 21 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |