Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 2 | Toying with that idea started a train of thought about some of the other activities probably open to super-beings , which led me to conjure up some images of myself with Sergia , the Ardakkean , minus her costume , in the Orgitunnel . |
| 3 | I flit from flower to flower , and I pick up different things from different flowers . ’ |
| 4 | You see how quickly I pick up English ways of talking . |
| 5 | You clearly think that you 're a piece of worthless rubbish , and if I pick up those vibes , then so do the blokes . |
| 6 | He sent someone to round up loose horses and looked for Cormac and Ferteth . |
| 7 | I warm up baked beans for the children 's |
| 8 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 9 | Time I and I woke up some friends . ’ |
| 10 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 11 | I cut up articulated lorries , rashly overtake , and dash through traffic lights when they 're more red than amber . |
| 12 | ‘ All right if I put up some posters ? |
| 13 | The blue one 's the one I wipe up small stains off the floor . |
| 14 | The pink one 's the dish cloth , the little one 's the one I wipe up small spills off the floor . |
| 15 | To cope with this , I set up separate clients ' accounts with the bank with some funding from the band 's accountants . |
| 16 | you want to see me , I get up three times to rake ashes er out and then I go int the kitchen in that cupboard , gerra newspaper and I 'm here screwing it up and throwing it on fireplace . |
| 17 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 18 | I packed up three months ' baggage and bought yet another case to bring home the excesses of my shopaholism , wrote down the addresses of many new friends and drove to New York to meet a really old one . |
| 19 | I could n't go without my red plastic bucket , or rather three of them ; I brought up five children without a washer — by choice . |
| 20 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 21 | I Dreamed up two sides of beef , fresh butchered and dripping pink and red . |
| 22 | I tell you , I went up those steps faster than a scalded faggot , propelled by a barbarous diuretic terror on behalf of my exposed rear end The heavy door at the top did n't give until the fifth push , but by then I had turned , and seen the shrugging figures as they retreated into the light , and now I could hear only laughter . |
| 23 | ‘ I sent up three flares . |
| 24 | Myself , I gave up digging years ago , with far less excuse , except that here , two inches down and you 're into rock . |
| 25 | It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend . |
| 26 | Wendy and I saved up two days ' leave for New Year , and we decided to spend it with my cousin , through whom we had the marriage connection . |
| 27 | I saved up these incidents to amuse Leslie in my letters , and related as much as I could about our domestic and leisure activities . |
| 28 | Well I bought up three children |
| 29 | I wrote up these notes immediately after each occasion and as soon as they were typed , sent copies to those involved with the request that they verify that the substance and the spirit of each occasion were accurately and adequately recorded . |
| 30 | Back at the bank I tackled up two rods with 4lb line and 14 's hooks in the usual paternoster method , i.e. a yard hook length and nine inch bomb length . |