Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Pain ( flying P3731 ) : ‘ This was a brawl with some 15 CR 42s in which the entire flight got mixed up some miles out to sea at about 18,000 feet between St. Paul 's Bay and Sliema . |
| 2 | She taught , pressed for prison reform , and helped set up charitable houses for elderly , epileptic , and incurable women . |
| 3 | Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead , and they locked him up because he went too far . ’ |
| 4 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 5 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 7 | The whole situation seemed both tragic and also profoundly humiliating — as when she 'd picked up one of his sweaters , packed in her suitcase by mistake . |
| 8 | Spare overalls , loose packaging , an inflatable liferaft , most of the parts of a second-hand galley robot she 'd picked up cheap and never quite got round to reassembling … |
| 9 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 10 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 11 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 12 | ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’ |
| 13 | And I never knew there was actually a proper song to it , I thought it was one we 'd made up junior school . |
| 14 | So how long , how many hours would three men have to work , before they 'd made up forty eight man hours ? |
| 15 | She 'd no idea why Ace should have broken his date with Dara to spend the evening with her , but it certainly looked as if by doing so he 'd stirred up some pretty powerful emotions . |
| 16 | Because of course he 'd used up all his energies , everything in dealing with this , he was completely drained . |
| 17 | They 're restricted And twenty four hours before flying to Fairford they 'd used up all their practice time . |
| 18 | He 'd soaked up all the motherfucking atmosphere he wanted , thank you very much . |
| 19 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 20 | Yeah I 'm sure you 'd packed up last time I saw you . |
| 21 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 22 | One day she had plucked up enough courage to look through the doorway , and had almost choked on the clouds of swirling dust . |
| 23 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Burton stoutly denied that he had broken up nine marriages : why , he did not even know three of the couples aforementioned . |
| 25 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 26 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 27 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 28 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 29 | But once the Petrovs had given up all their secrets they became difficult to please , claiming that their true value was not being appreciated . |
| 30 | Roland had given up all thought , in any case not very realistic , of discussing the purloined letters with Blackadder . |