Example sentences of "[vb past] up a few " in BNC.

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1 Another is expressing controversial opinions , so we obligingly lined up a few that focus on guitars and amps … .
2 Another is expressing controversial opinions , so we obligingly lined up a few that focus on guitars and amps … .
3 Mala 's vigorous snort stirred up a few echoes , but no one looked around .
4 I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me .
5 He woke up a few minutes later .
6 WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city .
7 The idea of race opened up a few humorous possibilities .
8 Cardiff foreshore turned up a few conger and codling .
9 The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue .
10 I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper .
11 You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice .
12 ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’
13 Dorcas organized younger nomes to digging drainage trenches and rigged up a few of the big light bulbs for heat .
14 British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more .
15 A woman got up a few rows back , and threw the hood off her head .
16 The original entrance foyer on the main road behind the square was barred and boarded and papered over with layers of handbills ; Carson walked up a few steps near the end of the alley and pushed open the door of a tradesman 's entrance .
17 I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood .
18 I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid .
19 We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls .
20 The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute .
21 ‘ The NEB … sent up a few people to take samples and they produced an interim report on the levels of radioactivity in the area .
22 A breath of cold , fresh air wafted over his face , as the heavy wooden square eased up a few inches .
23 Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car .
24 I gave up a few years ago . ’
25 ‘ You did n't really think I 'd run away just because you tore up a few of my clothes , did you ? ’
26 The knife sprang into the air , arced up a few inches as if powered by a small spring .
27 After living with his aunt for four years , Mr Banks moved in with his girlfriend , but he moved back home last September after the couple split up a few weeks later and became very depressed .
28 He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed .
29 Worm baits picked up a few small coalfish , codling and whiting .
30 Rushie picked up a few lira and an Armani suit but it 's probably fair to say our golden boy from St Asaph did n't exactly win the freedom of Turin .
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