Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay it 's erm I du n no , I du n no how they 'll feel about you phoning them up though to be honest with you . |
| 2 | ‘ You two are cheering me up too much and I ca n't stand the excitement . ’ |
| 3 | I saw now she was softening me up just to ask me a favour . |
| 4 | And so , I suppose , they 're keeping it up now . |
| 5 | She 's picking them up tomorrow morning is n't she . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and would n't it be good to get a structure and … maybe costume , a few props anyway and learn the poems off by heart , not read them , nose buried in a book , dropping them out your looseleaf onto the floor , scrabbling around picking them up again in the wrong order . ’ |
| 7 | The days of leaving one 's brains at the front gate and picking them up again when one leaves are firmly in the past . |
| 8 | there 's any chance of picking them up here , said otherwise I 'm going to have to her take Alex late . |
| 9 | Without all these controls companies will still be making standard phone calls and writing them up afterwards into signed telephone logs and considering them the best records of a transaction . |
| 10 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 11 | Tom had to go racing round all morning rounding them up again . |
| 12 | Derek 's picking you up about two tomorrow . |
| 13 | If I 'm writing something up here and I talk to you while I 'm writing up here then what does it do ? |
| 14 | She flopped through the snow , stumbling , picking herself up again and walking on . |
| 15 | Picking her up gently in his mouth he carried her back home , sweeping her flamboyantly over the threshold and into their new abode — his cosy old basket in the corner of the kitchen ! |
| 16 | Living it up then you are |
| 17 | Tell you what she 's living it up more now than she did before ! |
| 18 | There was another Zionist Congress in Vienna , and she 'd had to pass it up , because she was passing it up quite often herself then . |
| 19 | ‘ How dare you ! ’ cried Zach , picking it up hastily . |
| 20 | So I think he 's picking it up very well . |
| 21 | I think she would pick it up ver is picking it up quite quickly |
| 22 | She paused with her ribbon in her hand and tossed her hair loose down her back without plaiting it up again , to please Finn , although he was uncouth . |
| 23 | Tommaso appeared as we came in from the street , hamming it up just the way I remembered . |
| 24 | What time 's he picking us up tonight ? |
| 25 | The tablets you 're taking are thyroxin ( thyroid hormone ) and they work wonders in speeding you up again . |
| 26 | Th there 's a t three a two year period where you 'll be an improver , where you could have an increase in pay about every six months , bringing you up gradually . |
| 27 | It is also possible to prevent subjects from having any Stage 4 sleep ( or very little ) by disturbing their sleep with loud noises , rather than waking them up fully . |
| 28 | I looked down at the four orange cards on the counter , lining them up evenly . |
| 29 | ‘ Start lining them up then . ’ |
| 30 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |