Example sentences of "[vb past] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She said that she woke up one day and did not feel lost or depressed , did not wonder what she was going to do with herself or reach for the phone to try and summon up some company . |
| 32 | It would be nice to think that she woke up one day and thought , ‘ I 've got to do Michael 's show . ’ |
| 33 | The Magician who Lost his Magic by David McKee is a story which is popular with young children ; it tells the story of how Melric the Magician , woke up one day to find he no longer had any magic . |
| 34 | The Romans woke up one day to find a McDonalds at the foot of the famous Spanish Steps . |
| 35 | BOOK NOW Gary Moore Versatile former Thin Lizzy guitarist who , having dabbled in an impressive variety of styles , including heavy metal , jazz rock and folk , finally woke up one morning and decided that he was a blues guitarist . |
| 36 | I 'm not suggesting that legislators woke up one morning and said : ‘ We must abolish slavery ! ’ or ‘ Bear baiting must cease ! ’ , but for the position to have changed from tacit acceptance to wholesale condemnation , there must have been a fulcrum point when the arguments tipped decidedly in one direction . |
| 37 | But what would you do if you woke up one morning to find that suddenly you had the chance of starting with a totally clean slate , and putting together your own system . |
| 38 | After three weeks of misery Sally woke up one morning and realised she was no longer in love with Pete . |
| 39 | ‘ I just woke up one morning and I felt glad to be alive , and glad that I was n't on this earth on my own , that there were other people to share it with me and help me get through my life . ’ |
| 40 | Deciding he did n't want to be the ‘ oldest swinger in town ’ he woke up one morning in 1987 with another hangover and decided he 'd had enough . |
| 41 | ‘ The recovery has been quite quick , just a few weeks , although I woke up one morning feeling terrible and drowsy ’ |
| 42 | The singer , at No. 20 with I Just Want To Dance With You , woke up one morning to find he could n't speak . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Woke up one morning and I was in for twenty thousand . |
| 45 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 46 | But it seemed even that could do little more than dull the edges of the pain , and , when she woke up one morning with a painful hangover and realised the ache in her heart was just as strong as it had ever been , she swore she 'd never again attempt to deal with her sorrows that way . |
| 47 | ‘ 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 . |
| 48 | I woke up one Christmas morning , |
| 49 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 50 | John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’ |
| 51 | Woke up this morning to Familiar Pain |
| 52 | Did you feel more positive about your future when you woke up this morning ? |
| 53 | Woke up this morning certain that we 'd lost : must stop eating cheese before going to sleep , or , for that matter , going to sleep before eating cheese . |
| 54 | because when you woke up this morning |
| 55 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 56 | ‘ The funny side hit me when I woke up this morning . |
| 57 | All the more ironic , too , because I woke up this morning feeling bloody marvellous after a really late and heavy night with the TV and the B & F. Was the phenomenon a new jet-lag deal , or the terminal mutiny of my whole bodybag ? |
| 58 | ‘ So when I woke up this morning , early for a change , and the sun was actually shining , I suddenly felt lighter . |
| 59 | Feeling years older than when she woke up this morning — and not just because she had acquired a new , sophisticated façade of hair and clothing during the day — Belinda plunged into the middle of the party crowd again . |
| 60 | Paul Weir woke up this morning , still mini-flyweight champion of the world , but already thinking of giving up the title . |