Example sentences of "[verb] just [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q : Have you ever considered just hanging up the business ? |
| 2 | On top of all that Prince Charles , heir to the throne and the man destined to become the Church 's supreme governor , has just split up with his wife and divorce looks likely . |
| 3 | She said , " Mary , a girl has just turned up here , she 's desperate ; she 's in Shaftwood Hotel , you know |
| 4 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 5 | AFTER 26 years our English Electric fridge has just packed up . |
| 6 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 7 | It has just woken up after fifteen thousand years . ’ |
| 8 | Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up . |
| 9 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 10 | Another service to industry , which has Just started up , looks like having a great future . |
| 11 | There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show . |
| 12 | safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night . |
| 13 | Jackie Gardner takes exhibits to horticultural shows all over the country and the nursery has just picked up a Gold Medal at Chelsea . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , sorry to disturb you both , ’ he said , warily , ‘ but someone from the Senate has just rung up , Charles . |
| 15 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 16 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 17 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 18 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 19 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 20 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 21 | And Kode has just set up a new marketing company , Kamtronics , to sell all high-volume printed circuit boards made in the Far East to the UK and Europe . |
| 22 | Your client Paul Pry has just set up in his own business selling computers , and hopes to employ several people . |
| 23 | The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society offers help for families who have lost babies and has just set up a Darlington branch . |
| 24 | America , having no domestic jet development programme to match either of these two aircraft , was struggling just to keep up with large French and British orders of existing fighters and light bombers let alone worry about ‘ jets ’ . |
| 25 | He 'd just gone up and I just I usually get up and turn the fire off and then the television . |
| 26 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 27 | Louis looked as though he 'd just got up off the ground after being knocked out in a fight . |
| 28 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 29 | ‘ And she 'll have the South Sussex team manager stoned to death at dawn with vegetarian Scotch eggs if they do n't win , ’ murmured Bas Baddingham who 'd just rolled up and was kissing Daisy . |
| 30 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |