Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back |
| 2 | Yeah , I came I went up about a year ago , I remember when I went down to Hertford in the yeah , I said I , I forgot to say what ticket and they automatically give you an adult do n't they ? |
| 3 | and I took up quite a few , thinned them out and my sister |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said softly , ‘ I work up quite a sweat . ’ |
| 5 | er because I think if I , if I put one , my one big bag , which takes up about a third , er , er |
| 6 | Example 2 is a typical Hendrix-style fill which sets up either a G major chord ( as in the example ) or an E minor chord . |
| 7 | He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ . |
| 8 | You woke up about an hour , you know the nights are shorter . |
| 9 | Excuse me could you speak up just a little bit ? |
| 10 | Er , and I did have er , somebody who came up about a year ago , and , and said do you talk to all your clients like this , and I said no , no it 's only at Tarmac . |
| 11 | Tukuse the only one where you move the choker or if you speak up just a little bit . |
| 12 | But college life is no picnic , admit Barclays , who sign up nearly a third of students . |
| 13 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 14 | So a Pacific as defined by such minds might fall within the appropriate longitudes and latitudes , but it would be riddled with holes , a discontinuous mess , a collection of unconnected pieces of sea and land established principally to prove an argument about an entity of which they make up only a fraction . |
| 15 | They had to go and give him some support and they put up quite a good fight . |
| 16 | ‘ What you see all around is the result of a group of well-meaning friends who happened upon the mistaken idea of a surprise get-together — they turned up about an hour ago with boxes full of food and a quite amazing selection of drink . ’ |
| 17 | I sweep the rod back as much as I can in the confined space and , although the fish is rather small at about 1¼lb , it kicks up quite a fuss and there is nothing I can do to stop it splashing . |
| 18 | It uses up quite an area does n't it for er mm |
| 19 | Once he 'd found out that I was applying to go to art school he opened up quite a bit and we began to talk . |
| 20 | He trips up quite a bit anyway when he 's walking along . |
| 21 | It get up over a hundred , people killed |
| 22 | He stepped up just a few feet from the service line to receive Lendl 's second serve . |
| 23 | It takes up quite a lot of our time . |
| 24 | Erm and so I , I believe that er the resolution in fact on the order paper will stand er and if we were to remove the first two lines er of Mr 's erm resolution that the County Council he represents if necessary that in a full , a full public enquiry into the fifth terminial at Heathrow , if we get that and graft on the rest of his words er to the resolution er on the Chairman er that will do two things er it reads er the quality of our Officers are suggesting and it picks up again a very important comments er that he makes er regarding post , er , er something that is public erm , er and that it , it meets media and the other improve that 's something for the district office report . |
| 25 | He went up there a couple of times and stood outside on the pavement forcing leaflets on people , trying to get them to come inside . |
| 26 | His eyelashes flickered into life as he looked up again a shy , delicate glance , like a cornered deer . |