Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Out of the question or not , lad , I checked up first thing . |
| 5 | When I got up that morning I had no father . |
| 6 | Well I was saying to Daddy actually I it would be better if I got up first and went in the bathroom . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When I got up next morning , I said to her , ‘ Are you still proud of me ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I know who I was when I got up this morning , but I have changed so often since then . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When I got up this morning , I nearly died ! |
| 14 | I honked up this morning . |
| 15 | I honked up this morning . |
| 16 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 17 | When I changed up fifty quid 's worth here erm on the Monday I got four point three five . |
| 18 | Some arsehole right is going to pick up and say oh well I phoned up this and y'know and then phoned the bloody managing director |
| 19 | I phoned up this week just to say I 'm getting on with it and they sort of like she said she 'd |
| 20 | I phoned up some more umm schools . |
| 21 | I asked him if he would be willing to meet some members of the House , if Lucy and I fixed up some small dinner parties after my resignation . |
| 22 | ‘ The recovery has been quite quick , just a few weeks , although I woke up one morning feeling terrible and drowsy ’ |
| 23 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 24 | I woke up one Christmas morning , |
| 25 | ‘ Then I woke up one summer morning-it was still dark , the birds were just starting their dawn chorus , and on that particular day there seemed only to be crows — and I felt very cold . |
| 26 | I woke up late afternoon sometime with a funny taste in my mouth . |
| 27 | Time I and I woke up some friends . ’ |
| 28 | ( I woke up chilly in the morning . ) |
| 29 | When I woke up next morning , and tried to get up , I could not move . |
| 30 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |