Example sentences of "[vb past] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I honked up this morning . |
| 2 | I honked up this morning . |
| 3 | Apparently impervious to Luke 's quick frown , he drew up another chair . |
| 4 | We drew up short term goals but Mrs Allen was not particularly interested in these — her main concern was the long-term aim of having a healed leg wound . |
| 5 | Even more at odds with the ‘ hands off ’ policies of Sir Keith Joseph is the list of policy objectives that Jenkin drew up last autumn as a guide to help civil servants . |
| 6 | Tom heated up some water on the range for the dirty dishes . |
| 7 | Calzaghe , from Newbridge , won the welterweight title last year but moved up one weight when he was promised the light-middleweight place in the Welsh squad for the Olympic trials last month in Milan . |
| 8 | And each year you moved up whether you were good , bad or indifferent you moved up one class , you see . |
| 9 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |
| 10 | Ronni dredged up some sanity from the depths of her half-stunned brain , detached her lips from Guido 's and pushed him away . |
| 11 | Mr Berry built up Blue Arrow from the small staff recruitment and travel operation he acquired in June 1982 into the world 's largest employment services group in September 1987 when it took over US company Manpower . |
| 12 | As surgeon , explorer , surveyor and Chief Factor , Rae built up invaluable experience and knowledge of the Arctic environment and its peoples . |
| 13 | From 1953 to 1964 we built up that factory into perhaps the second largest of its kind in the world and certainly the largest and best in Europe . |
| 14 | Withdrawal would not undermine the military position of the Far Eastern Command unless the Soviet Union built up military strength in south Korea sufficient to implement an attack on Japan . |
| 15 | ( The United States built up huge rupee balances which it eventually wrote off . ) |
| 16 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 17 | Odo de Grandson 's fellow-Savoyard , Jean de Grilly ( d. 1303 ) , was Edward 's lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine ( 1266–8 , 1278–87 ) and built up considerable expertise in French and Gascon affairs . |
| 18 | Oh that was she was supposed to come today , but she phoned up last week erm she is gon na come but I do n't think that a date has been arranged yet . |
| 19 | Yeah they phoned up last week . |
| 20 | So I well I sent him er our sheets , er sheet about the group and the minutes and er I contacted Michael er , who said he 'll be very happy to help in , so I er phoned up this chap and said , gave him Michael 's number and said erm he 'd like to come to this meeting tonight , he said yes , so I went to pick him up and I just could n't find that blinking house , anyone who knows Harlow , he 's in Parsonage Leys , I just could n't find the number it was , I just could n't find anything less than thirty seven |
| 21 | I phoned up this week just to say I 'm getting on with it and they sort of like she said she 'd |
| 22 | I DID N'T read the article that stirred up such anger in you , but if I had , I 'd have shared your rage . |
| 23 | Birch 's work on where jobs were being generated in the US economy stirred up considerable interest around the time of the 1979 election in Britain when Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative government first came to power . |
| 24 | In 1631 came an edition , from ‘ R. Barker and the Assigns of Bill ’ , which stirred up more trouble than most , particularly for the printers . |
| 25 | I was so cold today , yeah , I got a , I filled up that kettle and I boiled it and I got , I was holding on to it and I fell backwards on to my bed and I burnt myself |
| 26 | The dominant memory I have of Skail , however , is not of psalm-singing Mrs Mackay , but of her porridge , dished up each morning with malignant glee . |
| 27 | I woke up late afternoon sometime with a funny taste in my mouth . |
| 28 | God knows why he woke up that night . |
| 29 | When she woke up that morning , with just a small hope in the corner of her heart , she found Patsy already awake , sitting upright in the old cot they still shared , his dark brown eyes shining with excitement from under his mop of brown hair . |
| 30 | Woke up one night and I heard this voice er ca n't remember what you said now no hey ! |