Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 2 | I got really fed up hearing it and thought that one more repetition would send me screaming down the street ! |
| 3 | ‘ In the past , I got too hyped up because I wanted to do well . |
| 4 | I do n't agree with the theory that my becoming emotionally charged up by the relay affair affected my running in the 100 metres . |
| 5 | In fairness to those whose questions come further down the Order Paper , I propose now to speed up a bit . |
| 6 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 7 | I 'd already given up trying to please my father . |
| 8 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd better go up and take a look , ’ he mumbled again , but he did n't move . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 'd better go up and see her . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I think I 'd better wash up the breakfast things , if you do n't mind . |
| 12 | Well go , I think she 's going to be shattered , I 'd better wake up Jo . |
| 13 | Perhaps I 'd better stop up then . |
| 14 | And so , it does n't look good if I do n't bring the information in so I 'd better hurry up with that . |
| 15 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 16 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 17 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |
| 18 | Er rather than being erm over er at forty thousand , for that we are , are pleased that the extra erm people is in work , but nevertheless we still have this very high level and we have a problem given the restructuring of the economy , I 'd better shut up because my colleagues er Chris and Jane are going to talk about erm another closure intending closure and yet more redundancies again er , it happens in Hatfield . |
| 19 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 20 | I 'd better live up to tradition and carry you over the threshold ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd better own up . |
| 22 | well perhaps she 'll get round , I 'd better tidy up first then in case |
| 23 | For example : ‘ I 'd better get up bright and early today . |
| 24 | Er I was still slobbing around in my dressing-gown and you know yesterday 's clothes and so I I I thought I 'd better get up and do stuff . |
| 25 | ‘ Now I 'd better get up . |
| 26 | I 'd almost given up hope that you 'd ever see me as a girl … a woman . |
| 27 | But I 've walked past so many pretty dresses and little socks with lacy tops , I 'd almost given up . |
| 28 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 29 | I get really fed up with it , so now I 've insisted on having a bodyguard with me . ’ |
| 30 | I get really fed up with the whole |