Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they may learn that their undue pessimism has caused them to pass up attractive market opportunities . |
| 2 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mum an , mum and dad expected me to come up last week |
| 5 | I flit from flower to flower , and I pick up different things from different flowers . ’ |
| 6 | You see how quickly I pick up English ways of talking . |
| 7 | Only to be quite honest I pick up some stuff and mainly now the basics we get free . |
| 8 | You clearly think that you 're a piece of worthless rubbish , and if I pick up those vibes , then so do the blokes . |
| 9 | ‘ Out of the question or not , lad , I checked up first thing . |
| 10 | When I got up that morning I had no father . |
| 11 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 12 | When I got up next morning , I said to her , ‘ Are you still proud of me ? ’ |
| 13 | She often opens conversations by telling people brightly : ‘ I got up this morning ’ , which seems to reflect her talent for being delighted by what is deeply ordinary . |
| 14 | ‘ I know who I was when I got up this morning , but I have changed so often since then . |
| 15 | I must say when I got up this morning I did n't feel much better than when I went to bed last night but there we are . |
| 16 | When I got up this morning , I nearly died ! |
| 17 | He sent someone to round up loose horses and looked for Cormac and Ferteth . |
| 18 | I honked up this morning . |
| 19 | I honked up this morning . |
| 20 | I warm up baked beans for the children 's |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When I changed up fifty quid 's worth here erm on the Monday I got four point three five . |
| 23 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 24 | What I want to say is I picked up some information in Gorstone about MacQuillan funding a terrorist group in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | I phoned up this week just to say I 'm getting on with it and they sort of like she said she 'd |
| 26 | ‘ The recovery has been quite quick , just a few weeks , although I woke up one morning feeling terrible and drowsy ’ |
| 27 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 28 | I woke up one Christmas morning , |
| 29 | ‘ Then I woke up one summer morning-it was still dark , the birds were just starting their dawn chorus , and on that particular day there seemed only to be crows — and I felt very cold . |
| 30 | I woke up late afternoon sometime with a funny taste in my mouth . |