Example sentences of "[verb] up every [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually we were n't too happy with the back of the old barn , because although we 'd tried to plug up every hole in the stonework , it was still possible for a determined young owl to squeeze out here and there . |
| 2 | He er , Hugh and I used to come up every day do what we could , you see , in those days if you had a stroke you had to lay there till you died . |
| 3 | A short silence my breath is held , my ears are picking up every creak and rustle — then : ‘ Ouch ! |
| 4 | Have you been trawling the sales and picking up every urn and tub that caught your fancy ? |
| 5 | But I 'd let my gaze slip back down to the wonderfully out thrust cloth over Sergia 's chest , so I was n't picking up every detail . |
| 6 | He woke up every day and went to work at the ice-cream parlour , but he began to hate the taste , the sight , the very thought of it . |
| 7 | I noted the time they woke up every day , the places they fed , the food they ate , the time of year they made their nests , and so on . |
| 8 | Yes , I think I do find housework monotonous , if you think one has to get up , make the beds every day , wash up every day , one should dust every day — I mean it is monotonous , is n't it ? |
| 9 | Fine , attribute it to your aftershave for all I care , as long as you recognize that opportunities as encouraging as those you now face do n't crop up every day . |
| 10 | I think I mean , it 's something , a pension mortgage is something that does n't crop up every day . |
| 11 | They 've used all their timber stores and cut up every bucket and table and door to make all those fighting platforms and towers , so they can hardly have plugs for their cannon , and they wo n't have any fuel except dung . |
| 12 | Wish I had n't messed up every relationship I ever had . ’ |
| 13 | Poor old Beatrice began by wanting to show how self-denying and supportive Ellen Ash was and she messed around looking up every recipe for gooseberry jam and every jaunt to Broadstairs for twenty-five years , can you believe it , and woke up to find that no one wanted self-denial and dedication any more , they wanted proof that Ellen was raging with rebellion and pain and untapped talent . |
| 14 | It seals up every nick , stimulates the skin to a tingling glow , leaves it looking and feeling very pleasant indeed , Corvette After-Shave may not turn you into a film star , but it certainly helps to make a man worth a second glance ! 3/9 a large bottle . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it is very important to encourage younger women to see that it is possible to combine a career with having a family , that you do n't miss out on your children — my son wakes up every Saturday so excited that it 's the weekend , not because he does n't have a lovely time during the week , but because there 's nothing for him quite like his parents . ’ |
| 17 | Wakes up every morning |
| 18 | I was n't prepared to totally drop things from the various courses ( because they still came up every year ) but over the years less and less emphasis was placed on the more mundane work . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've made up every word of it and you know it . |
| 20 | Work habits ( such as waking up every day to an alarm clock ) that often flow over into responsible social attitudes ( such as being a good father ) are not being learnt . |
| 21 | ‘ The recording is of a large group of females which meet up every day to socialise , ’ he said . |
| 22 | If this is not the case then the purchaser may face arguments from the vendor by way of defence relating to completely different matters ( eg a bad debt provision is in fact excessive as a defence to a claim relating to non-payment of PAYE ) and detailed accounts may need to be drawn up every time there is a breach of warranty ( ie in order to see if there is some surplus which compensates ) . |
| 23 | Although he intended to live in the house , for at least part of the time , he saw it too as saleable and the value or price of it ( however you liked to put it ) going up every year . |
| 24 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 25 | One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain . |
| 26 | It was a square plain room , painted pale green below the cream above , in gloss , which showed up every unevenness in the plaster . |
| 27 | Even without your help I 'd find my family , ’ she said in a low tone , ‘ and it would n't matter if I had to look up every Corosini in the phone book and knock on a hundred doors . ’ |
| 28 | It 's of course only to be expected that people should moan about the tax they 've got to pay and people always complain that it seems to go up every year . |
| 29 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 30 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |