Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped , then said slowly , ‘ Losing your dog has shaken me up so much that I 'm very nervous about this case . |
| 2 | But Horsley did not seem to see things like that , and he had cheered them up mightily with a little speech congratulating them all and insisting ‘ the team ’ must stay together . |
| 3 | He had given them up long ago . |
| 4 | Julius Apollo had mixed them up yet again . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , above , that bloke with the awful tie 's picked me up again , moans BETTY KITTEN WOSS . |
| 6 | But Vadinamia 's spaceport city is a compact place , and any tails would have picked me up again soon enough . |
| 7 | er a local chap was rung me up yesterday Well rang me up |
| 8 | And he 's sort of picked himself up now , and he 's more , where I 'm getting involved . |
| 9 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 10 | Her mother had picked her up bodily the night before and dragged her into her room where she had then thrown her on to her bed . |
| 11 | This is what cumulative evolution is all about , although , because of our high mutation rate , we have speeded it up here to unrealistic rates . |
| 12 | Have you looked it up then ? |
| 13 | Well I have n't yet , I have n't picked it up yet . |
| 14 | By the time he had picked it up there was another one , a little way off and still spinning . |
| 15 | That is dreadful garage that did n't phone to find out why they had n't picked it up though , is n't it ? |
| 16 | One has the impression that the politicians have half-heartedly picked it up so as not to be left behind in the citizenship fashion-parade , or maybe because they have been prodded into rendering some kind of lip-service by their convinced academics . |
| 17 | Police came up , they 've been up , we 've seen them up there several times |
| 18 | . I have n't seen one up there . |
| 19 | All my life I had seen him up there on the screen . |
| 20 | I 've just phoned her up just to tell her . |
| 21 | He 'd never seen her up here before . |
| 22 | But the third time they had turned it up so it kept on going big waves so I I missed the steps so the erm one of the lifeguards |
| 23 | I enclose pre-payment of £20.68 ( £17.60 plus the VAT , if I 've reckoned it up correctly ! ) , and I will send camera-ready artwork by the 21st of this month . |
| 24 | Oh he 's done it up here , look . |
| 25 | Have you written it up yet ? |
| 26 | Since becoming sole owner of the family tailoring business , William had built it up very successfully . |
| 27 | disconnected the gas , took that bloody old heater off , connected it up somewhere else and whatever they 're gon na do and then the gas is coming through a fire . |
| 28 | I got this clear but you 've messed it up again . |
| 29 | Er we we have warmed it up as much I would have said this on the phone , we 've warmed it up as much as we possibly can . |
| 30 | Er we we have warmed it up as much I would have said this on the phone , we 've warmed it up as much as we possibly can . |