Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made them up just in the spur of the moment . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him I was training with Guisborough that evening , so he met me up there and a deal was sorted out . |
| 3 | Miss Bedwelty then said , ‘ You asked me up here to give my opinion . |
| 4 | Apparently it was Miles ' fishing that got them up so early . |
| 5 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 6 | But you must have thought of it already when you invited me up here . |
| 7 | The last time I cut my hair my father beat me up very badly , and threw his weightlifting equipment at me . |
| 8 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 9 | My brother , my brother really wants to did , did you know Pete like , phoned me up yesterday |
| 10 | Dad phoned me up twice from your house this morning and could n't get no answer here , he said , I was sat here so I can here the phone go , anyway he went around again later on , tried it , and it was alright then . |
| 11 | No she 's only staying tonight and they think , they just phoned me up then and they were on the square , I think she 's going home phorr what 's that smell , it stinks what ? |
| 12 | ‘ You found someone up there , ’ she said , seeing his face . |
| 13 | The Doctor drew himself up angrily . |
| 14 | He paused and drew himself up proudly to his full height again . |
| 15 | Charlie drew himself up proudly . |
| 16 | Benjamin drew himself up so his shoulders were no longer stooped . |
| 17 | Jessie drew herself up straight . |
| 18 | She drew herself up straight , turned on her heel and , even though Fen was not watching her , made what she hoped was a dignified exit . |
| 19 | Olga drew herself up proudly . |
| 20 | She drew herself up sharply . |
| 21 | She drew herself up sharply . |
| 22 | His bones bore him up again . |
| 23 | He turned over on his back and drew her up so that her head lay on his shoulder . |
| 24 | He shouted at her and kicked out and she stopped in her tracks , yelping , but soon afterwards she caught him up again . |
| 25 | If he caught him up here again he 'd see him off , scare him to death . |
| 26 | He caught her up outside and snatched at her arm . |
| 27 | After a few feeble and dispirited attempts to rotate his shoulders in a circular movement , or raise and lower his arms , he subsided with a groan and lay slumped until the nurse helped him up again and the torture continued . |
| 28 | ‘ Had a bust-up in the late fifties when he beat her up so badly he was sent to jail . ’ |
| 29 | Once his head began to fall onto his chest but he jerked it up again . |
| 30 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |