Example sentences of "[vb pp] up all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 2 | I have sat up all night attempting to watch the fish in the dark with the aid of a torch and the Orange Spot does venture out of the bogwood and hunts around for food . |
| 3 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 4 | Dotty had sat up all night assuring him that Dawn was n't his responsibility . |
| 5 | New discoveries have opened up all kinds of possibilities for holding back the march of time . |
| 6 | Got up all night and walked round and round and round on his blooming bad leg ! |
| 7 | Roland had given up all thought , in any case not very realistic , of discussing the purloined letters with Blackadder . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 9 | Although it is impossible to think of him as a Londoner , this move began a lifelong association with the capital to which he returned every year for a few months , even after he had given up all thoughts of making it his permanent home . |
| 10 | By the 1660s , Rome had given up all thoughts of the forcible deposition of the English Protestant monarchy ; indeed , in the 1670s its cautious and reluctant response to the proposed marriage of the heir to the throne James and the Catholic noblewoman Mary of Modena threatened to block the best route for a peaceful end to the English schism , and Rome continued to offer only lukewarm support to James both before and after 1685 . |
| 11 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 12 | As well as those who have deliberately given up all idea of marriage for the sake of their Christian calling , there are others who fail to find a marriage partner and accept that situation as part of God 's plan for their life . |
| 13 | I have given up all idea now of going to Kings and shall make my way across the Island as quickly as I can making a call or two on the way . |
| 14 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 15 | Following the flooding of RFK Stadium , the Washington Redskins have given up all hope of making another Superbowl — but the city 's new Red Herrings are an increasingly powerful force in major league water-polo . |
| 16 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 17 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 18 | Having given up all hope of getting hold of a man for herself alone , she would be prepared to share one as the next best thing . |
| 19 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 20 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 21 | The timing of the goal was a vital ingredient of this delirium , of course ( I for one had given up all hope by then ) , as was the venue ( we had n't won up there for decades ) ; but what really gave the night meaning was the anxiety and despair , year after year of it , that had gone before . |
| 22 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 23 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 24 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 25 | ‘ Now I 've given up all hope ( of returning to Formula One ) . ’ |
| 26 | War heroes who served on the Russian convoys had given up all hope of receiving the award issued by the old Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Many ex-servicemen had given up all hope of ever seeing the tribute after the Ministry of Defence warned supplies could dry up following the break-up of the USSR . |
| 28 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 29 | erm This has a knock-on effect insofar as if they 've once given up the physical sciences , then it means that they 've given up all hopes , when they leave school , of following a , a job or a profession , of courses in further or higher education , in technological , engineering subjects . |
| 30 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |