Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite poor trading , the bank stumped up another £70,000 for a second premises in Chelsea last year . |
| 2 | they nearly did it brilliant way , remember I had the little labels on them and they 've all got mixed up one way or another |
| 3 | These cards are well mixed up this time are n't they ? |
| 4 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They 've rung up this morning and apologized . |
| 7 | They 've rung up this morning and apologized . |
| 8 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 9 | rung up this morning still not there |
| 10 | Russell ( 1986 ) prefers a model in which mineralising fluids were generated by Carboniferous seawater penetrating , and reacting with , the underlying Caledonian basement to increasing depths ( up to 10 km ) under a normal geothermal gradient during basin extension before being discharged up listric faults . |
| 11 | Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services . |
| 12 | I tell you what , car 's a bit frozen up this morning |
| 13 | OH , what a stir was caused by Ghostwatch , the BBC Halloween programme which appeared to have conjured up evil spirits in a haunted house . |
| 14 | This is the man who has conjured up fresh doubts about the validity of the so-called Dianagate tapes . |
| 15 | This is the man who has conjured up fresh doubts about the validity of the so-called Dianagate tapes . |
| 16 | The mind that had conjured up those designs had to be brilliant — annoying , devious , prone to flights of fancy — but brilliant all the same . |
| 17 | But you have looked up some history for me ? |
| 18 | Patients , to Aline , were fascinating mental problems to be picked up each time one walked on duty and put down directly one walked out of the ward . |
| 19 | By the time the threatened rain arrived around 4pm , 70 overs had been bowled , 50 of them by spinners , there had been two 100-run partnerships and Boon and Whitaker had picked up stylish half-centuries . |
| 20 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |
| 21 | Lauda only picked up four points from the two races . |
| 22 | A second canoe on this mission was paddled back to be safely picked up five miles from the English coast . |
| 23 | Volunteers recently picked up eight tons of litter left by them . |
| 24 | Picked up expensive habits , too . |
| 25 | Stoke have picked up 14 points from their last seven games . |
| 26 | Have you picked up that plant ? |
| 27 | His sharp ears , predictably , had picked up that nuance . |
| 28 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |