Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that I the last time I was down there and I they opened up the door to go and get some cos they had hundreds in there . |
| 2 | yeah , yes verbally yes if we 're writing we 'd actually be six but it was it was the span of conception was n't it the capacity of the brain The span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method |
| 3 | The verdict It wants greasin ’ was repeated to the dealer ; but as he was a Suffolk man himself he summed up the situation in a moment . |
| 4 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 5 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 6 | This exercise was perhaps most illuminating in the way in which it showed up the nerve ( or lack of it ) of the existing contractors ’ managements ; and the results demonstrated the inherent impossibility of combining apparently objective cash criteria with inevitably subjective judgements of quality . |
| 7 | Erm and various people like that you see and it seemed to sort of you you went up the scale . |
| 8 | For it was she who brought up the young James after the perhaps fortunate death of his violent , drunken father in a railway accident . |
| 9 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
| 10 | It was she who took up the trays Anna would n't touch when she kept to her room and had sent for her trunks . |
| 11 | ‘ It was you who brought up the subject , ’ he pointed out crisply . |
| 12 | in terms of , I mean Bill was the one who drafted up the |
| 13 | Not when I was there of course it was er it was er er radio was there you know and we we called up the shore station at Ered at nine o'clock one o'clock and five o'clock every day unless there was er a fault in the radio which we were usually able to overcome . |
| 14 | There was a freshness and gaiety about her which lit up the brothel , making it appear dismal by comparison . |
| 15 | Well they just er they just forked them they they brought up the side what I said the boss , you see . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , what was it you rang up the Yard to tell me ? ’ |
| 17 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |
| 18 | You 're being asked erm you told us you rang up the Assistant Chief Constable who gave you the authority to carry out the armed operation . |