Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pron] [vb past] up " in BNC.

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1 I I tripped up and fell down at the side .
2 I I I I finished up with four sixes and a three four five
3 Yeah I I held up a traffic jam of about sixty cars doing that .
4 last week , I I cleared up every day
5 ‘ It was this friend of yours who turned up this afternoon .
6 So that I the last time I was down there and I they opened up the door to go and get some cos they had hundreds in there .
7 ‘ Do n't tell me you ended up feeling guilty ? ’
8 On catching sight of me she threw up her head , and as I was not looking in her direction she stood stock still , as these animals have a habit of doing when they are under the impression that they have not been seen .
9 And you can tell me who tidied up this room . ’
10 I was wondering : are they surprised because of the piece , or because it was me who stood up and read it ?
11 Erm you you came up this that 's right class one and then class two , and then class three , class four , class five , that 's right , right to the very end .
12 Erm and various people like that you see and it seemed to sort of you you went up the scale .
13 you you mounted up a certain amount of debt , you tried to get it paid by the end of the quarter .
14 For it was she who brought up the young James after the perhaps fortunate death of his violent , drunken father in a railway accident .
15 During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times .
16 It was she who took up the trays Anna would n't touch when she kept to her room and had sent for her trunks .
17 ‘ It was you who brought up the subject , ’ he pointed out crisply .
18 When the men I engaged were finding you they turned up information about that too .
19 I told you he spewed up on Sandra did n't I ?
20 I imagine , ’ he said to the Prince , ‘ that you yourself rang up later ? ’
21 That was just before we started to be And we I finished up and me twenty first birthday in a place called and that was in Belgium but in between .
22 Not when I was there of course it was er it was er er radio was there you know and we we called up the shore station at Ered at nine o'clock one o'clock and five o'clock every day unless there was er a fault in the radio which we were usually able to overcome .
23 But there were five of them there one day in the porch and when they saw me they gathered up their bottles and began to go , except one .
24 Between them they came up with a pile of notes and coins .
25 Between them they built up a dense network of services , institutions and training and campaign centres with inevitable duplications and therefore the constant need for co-ordination .
26 They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again .
27 There was a freshness and gaiety about her which lit up the brothel , making it appear dismal by comparison .
28 Fat chance she had of influencing Guy Sterne 's decisions over the fate of the family firm if every time she entered into conversation with him she ended up insulting him .
29 They were silent for a moment , Rachel trying to contemplate what it must be like to be entirely alone in the world , then , as a sudden thought hit her she glanced up .
30 When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’
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