Example sentences of "[vb pp] up some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 2 | John Pain ( flying P3731 ) : ‘ This was a brawl with some 15 CR 42s in which the entire flight got mixed up some miles out to sea at about 18,000 feet between St. Paul 's Bay and Sliema . |
| 3 | But you have looked up some history for me ? |
| 4 | I did n't know what crows ate , so picked up some cabbage leaves and a lump of congealed moussaka from a dish in the Corporal 's kitchen . |
| 5 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 6 | Athelstan carefully picked up some splinters of wood . |
| 7 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 8 | What I want to say is I picked up some information in Gorstone about MacQuillan funding a terrorist group in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | I 've just picked up some words and phrases . ’ |
| 10 | In group A the Paper Tigers with their amazing bouncing ball have lifted their rounders difference to great heights while Dr Blobby and the Blobettes have at last picked up some points from a game , which means that all teams this year have managed to win at least one point . |
| 11 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |
| 12 | The European Court of Justice has , however , built up some case law which begins to narrow the definition of what is meant by ‘ in the public service ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I know that you 've built up some kind of sustaining narrative behind your eidetic delusion — it can not but be otherwise . |
| 14 | If you have built up some experience using the remedies then you will find the 30 an excellent potency for acute illness . |
| 15 | Marcus told himself that he had muddled up some bears , examined his own dream , concluded it told him nothing he did n't know , and decided not to report it to Mr Rose . |
| 16 | It must have stirred up some memories for her , days of wine and roses , eh ? |
| 17 | Folly realised belatedly that she might have stirred up some trouble for her informant . |
| 18 | Jordan 's patrol , passing that way the night before , had been spotted , and had then shot up some trucks . |
| 19 | In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've made up some time , ’ he informed her . |
| 21 | The earliest use of either of the terms so far located ( aside , of course , from that in the Kanunname itself ) is in a list of medreses and their incumbents in the archives of the Topkapi Sarayi , drawn up some time in the years 942–4/1536–7 . |
| 22 | Special recruitment drives have been organised , " model agreements " governing when and under what conditions temporary workers might be used , and " casual workers " charters ' have been drawn up Some unions , notably the electricians , have gone further , establishing local registers of ( otherwise ) unemployed members from which employers have to draw when filling the temporary positions enterprise level agreements have permitted them to create . |
| 23 | He 'd have thought up some joke , or turned it to his advantage . |
| 24 | I never overstayed my welcome and always dreamed up some excuse if any of them suggested meeting me outside working hours . |
| 25 | Two years on and £1,000 poorer ( I 've had to foot his costs to buy him off my land ) the lawyers have patched up some sort of agreement . |
| 26 | The marriage must have broken up some time in 1980 . |
| 27 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 28 | He 's rigged up some sort of snowplough behind a horse . ’ |
| 29 | These poltroons seems to think that it 's a big deal to hoist a few pints of Smithwicks after an afternoon spent with their heads stuck up some geezer 's back passes . |
| 30 | generally cleaned up I 've pulled up some nettles and got the access to the greenhouse a bit better it 's a bit pooey in there in n it ? |