Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corris says that once the ISDN lines are there , the company will be able to use them to nail up permanent and semi-permanent virtual circuits , potential competition for the company 's leased line business . |
| 2 | Or they may learn that their undue pessimism has caused them to pass up attractive market opportunities . |
| 3 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 4 | Toying with that idea started a train of thought about some of the other activities probably open to super-beings , which led me to conjure up some images of myself with Sergia , the Ardakkean , minus her costume , in the Orgitunnel . |
| 5 | Mum an , mum and dad expected me to come up last week |
| 6 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 7 | After I 'd done that I made up some new bombs to replace the ones I 'd used the day before , and a few extra besides . |
| 8 | I round up all the suitable containers in the house — china , glass and plastic , plain and coloured — and on U-day , I sneak out first and put them in strategic places all round the garden . |
| 9 | If I round up all these criminals and trouble-makers , no one will say , ‘ What a clever man is Colonel Stok to grab these people before they could cause our country trouble . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry to interrupt , ’ they say politely on the phone , and I sit up straighter and always feel guilty . |
| 11 | ‘ So what are you suggesting : that I make up some nice little story ? |
| 12 | And I make up this |
| 13 | I pick up all the casualties . |
| 14 | I flit from flower to flower , and I pick up different things from different flowers . ’ |
| 15 | You see how quickly I pick up English ways of talking . |
| 16 | I pick up some strange things , ’ she said , looking at him . |
| 17 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 18 | Only to be quite honest I pick up some stuff and mainly now the basics we get free . |
| 19 | You clearly think that you 're a piece of worthless rubbish , and if I pick up those vibes , then so do the blokes . |
| 20 | ‘ Out of the question or not , lad , I checked up first thing . |
| 21 | When I got up that morning I had no father . |
| 22 | Well I was saying to Daddy actually I it would be better if I got up first and went in the bathroom . |
| 23 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 24 | When I got up next morning , I said to her , ‘ Are you still proud of me ? ’ |
| 25 | so when I got up half past six and I got shaved now at last , gon na go and get ready and pull the curtains back , oh what a of rain , I says oh I says |
| 26 | She often opens conversations by telling people brightly : ‘ I got up this morning ’ , which seems to reflect her talent for being delighted by what is deeply ordinary . |
| 27 | ‘ I know who I was when I got up this morning , but I have changed so often since then . |
| 28 | I must say when I got up this morning I did n't feel much better than when I went to bed last night but there we are . |
| 29 | When I got up this morning , I nearly died ! |
| 30 | I honked up this morning . |