Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] few " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 . |