Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 2 | Jeffrey : My first sexual encounters were in South Wales , where I grew up . |
| 3 | ‘ Not round where I grew up , they 're not , ’ Cashman said . |
| 4 | We called at Brigade H.Q where I picked up my bagpipes . |
| 5 | In 1941 I was trained as a Navigator/Radio in the RAF and was eventually sent to an OTU where I crewed up with a Canadian pilot , Bob Tidy of Toronto . |
| 6 | or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign . |
| 7 | By December 1917 Madame Weill had moved from her tiny shop on the Rue Victor-Masse , where she pinned up her pictures with clothes-pegs on an overhead wire like washing , to a more imposing venue , Galerie B. Weill , 50 Rue Taitbout in the 9th arrondissement . |
| 8 | After she completed her degree course , they moved to the United States , where she took up an appointment as an instructor in English at Smith College . |
| 9 | Wyn devised a laborious system of communication where she held up letters and Norman would nod for ‘ yes ’ and shake his head for ‘ no ’ . |
| 10 | What she did like was a roundabout where you went up and down gradually as over waves , in a car that swung slightly but did n't turn . |
| 11 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 12 | There was a game where you blew up balloons and sat on them . |
| 13 | where we finished up now where did we start from ? |
| 14 | We motored down to Vyborg Castle Harbour , where we tied up by a newly built tax-free shop in the shadow of the 12th Century castle . |
| 15 | Erm can someone make it clear to me where we ended up with Q P5 , I am not sure whether we are changing the application or deleting Yes the exception both doing both your doing both yes . |
| 16 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 17 | There seemed nowhere to take discussions of these dilemmas except to the conferences ' lesbian workshops , where they took up almost all the time . |
| 18 | After leaving Angela 's mummy 's shoes at the repairer 's , they went on to Jessica Turvey 's house , where they tied up Joe while they went inside . |
| 19 | They cynically referred to it as ‘ college ’ where they picked up further tips in the arts of fraud from their cell mates . |
| 20 | The next stop was Butterfield , where they picked up Morton the embalmer . |
| 21 | The actors drifted away from the centre of the room to the safety of the walls , where they picked up crosswords , fiddled with knitting , lit cigarettes and gave generally unconvincing impressions of people who were n't worried about what was about to happen . |
| 22 | The youths drove on until they reached a stretch of unmade road where they pulled up , but quickly left after they were disturbed by the sound of a barking dog . |
| 23 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 24 | Four transports carrying a total of 124 children came from Danzig , travelling by train via Berlin to the Hook where they joined up with other groups waiting to be ferried across to Harwich . |
| 25 | They returned down a different hole and soon found a dry , empty burrow , where they curled up together and slept in the warmth of their own tired bodies . |
| 26 | The coroner ignored it and crossed to the end of the room , where he took up his favourite position a-straddle the fireplace . |
| 27 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 28 | In less than three months he , too , had moved — to a cottage just outside the village , where he took up gardening and fishing with great energy and enthusiasm . |
| 29 | On 1 March 1830 he was appointed gardener to Charles Stanhope , fourth Earl of Harrington , at Elvaston Castle , where he took up his post on 2 August , with instructions to create a new garden . |
| 30 | In the first two chapters , entitled ‘ Essex Man ? ’ and ‘ Leytonstone Boy ’ , inevitable comparison is made with Simon Heffer 's semi-fictitious brute , and Gooch 's origins are traced to the East End council flat where he grew up . |