Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Of course , everyone signs up for nearly everything , but then it 's all part of university life . |
2 | ‘ On April 1 and I met up with once again to do the voice-over for our film at the BBC studios in Manchester . |
3 | As always I got up at once so that I might cherish the ninety minutes until we assembled for work — minutes that were mine — not the authorities . |
4 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
5 | ‘ I phoned up from there last night , ’ said Gazzer , talking mainly to stop himself thinking . |
6 | ‘ Marie , I phoned up from there last night . ’ |
7 | I woke up at about nine o'clock this morning . |
8 | The one I came up with eventually was ‘ indescribable ’ . |
9 | If I just put a point then I measured up to there |
10 | I cheered up at once . |
11 | I get up for about half four and |
12 | Well it 's he 's , he gets up at six in the morning and I get up at about five o'clock and I go to bed later than him anyway normally , so it must be |
13 | Well , as long as it does n't make me feel uneasy , I 'm a fairly tidy sort of person , so I do make the bed , and sort of tidy up in the bedroom , and I tidy up in here , when she 's gone to bed . |
14 | How — ’ ‘ How did I end up in here ? |
15 | I looked up at where the pipe went through the wall into the prison . |
16 | My brothers and I grew up with very different interests and aspirations and we were to lead very different lives . |
17 | ‘ You 're never a problem , Mart , you always know exactly what you want … ’ and continues blowing hot air up my kilt until I end up with exactly what he wants . |
18 | As the paper is wet the colour merges and falls and sometimes I end up with quite a nice fusion of colours which I then leave to dry thoroughly . |
19 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
20 | Bishop Burnet I gave up with even more regret than the ‘ place . ’ |
21 | A Platy — I waited up until 2am to save the babies . |
22 | ‘ I stayed up until 3am watching television and thought it was great . |
23 | But if you crossed to the wrong post there was a devil of an arguament because someone ended up with only half a strip |
24 | I stood up at once . |
25 | Usually ½ — I grade up on where I 'd normally print it . |
26 | Sir Henry and I jumped up at once . |
27 | But none of them turned up to today so |
28 | He was struck by how similar the behaviour of different species can be , as in ( for example ) the courtship of different species of ducks which grow up in very different environments . |
29 | Patricks denied that Asynchronous Transfer Mode support was a change of heart for DEC , which has up to now focussed on FDDI but , he said , ‘ it might be a change of public statement ’ . |
30 | It will be necessary to introduce a distinction , which has up to now not been needed , between two kinds of element relevant to lexical semantics . |