Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I changed up fifty quid 's worth here erm on the Monday I got four point three five . |
| 4 | ‘ The recovery has been quite quick , just a few weeks , although I woke up one morning feeling terrible and drowsy ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I woke up one Christmas morning , |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | In a feeble effort at self-preservation , I put up one arm to ward off a blow , but the arm fell down as if it would have nothing to do with such an idea . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I Dreamed up two sides of beef , fresh butchered and dripping pink and red . |
| 14 | ‘ I sent up three flares . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well I bought up three children |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My father carries me from the car and I glide up two flights of concrete steps , suspended in midair by anti-gravity . |
| 19 | I picked up one photograph only : Leon in profile , back to the camera , dancing formally with a girl , his hand raised with hers , his head solicitously inclined to her young , upturned , joyful face . |
| 20 | Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market . |
| 21 | Carnivores feed on other carnivores ( which make up 10 percent of the diet of the leopard , for example ) , scavengers feed on the dead carcases of all kinds of animal , and most important , the decomposing fungi and bacteria return the nutrients from dead bodies to the soil , from whence they can be re-used by plants . |
| 22 | The social chapter , which takes up three pages of the 134-page treaty , is merely a statement of intent to implement a social dimension within the EC . |
| 23 | As you can see once again the advertising is a problem in year one which takes up forty percent of our actual cost of the total product . |
| 24 | This month 's parliamentary debates follow the report of the war crimes inquiry , headed by the former Director of Public Prosecutions , Sir Thomas Hetherington , which followed up 301 allegations . |
| 25 | The function contains a loop which picks up one character at a time and classifies it . |
| 26 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 27 | If you , if you are standing like this and you pick up one foot you will slightly raise your pelvis on the opposite side wo n't you ? |
| 28 | What I would suggest is that you pick up 1,000 shares now at … |
| 29 | A poor peasant , who made up seventy percent of the population , is a peasant who does n't have a plot big enough to support himself and his family . |
| 30 | And each year you moved up whether you were good , bad or indifferent you moved up one class , you see . |