Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I inform him , as he has not answered my question , that the same careers service says that nothing has changed and that the same number of young people will not get YTS places , that many of them are fed up with turning up , only to be told that nothing is available and that the continued recession and closures mean that hundreds of them will have nothing to do ? |
| 2 | I been beaten up by hoods , framed on a murder rap , beaten up by cops , sent up the river , beaten up by prison bulls , got a last-minute reprieve from the governor , and been beaten up by my girl . ’ |
| 3 | Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island . |
| 4 | I am catching up on George Orwell , too , and reading Solzhenitsyn . |
| 5 | Bob is away on a day 's painting course today , so I am catching up with my letters before the Christmas deluge . |
| 6 | While I am tucked up by my warm fire being waited on hand and foot , you will be out in your cars touring the streets with nowhere to go , wishing in vain for a lovely girl to console you and end your loneliness . |
| 7 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 8 | I am fed up at times |
| 9 | Commenting on the letter to Tolba , Mr Lapointe , who has previously insisted that his actions and those of his staff are entirely correct , would only say yesterday : ‘ My comment is that I am fed up with all the garbage . ’ |
| 10 | By nightfall I am fed up with the search and determined to leave tomorrow for at least one day on Drangajökull . |
| 11 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 12 | I am fed up with French plaits and ponytails and refuse to wear my hair in a bun . |
| 13 | I end up wanting to look thinner ; I 'd like to have a big nose because I am fed up with people telling me mine is ‘ cute' ; I 'd like to have naturally dark eyebrows and eyelashes , so I would n't look like a heroin addict without any make-up on ; straighter teeth , no spots and a better haircut . |
| 14 | I am fed up with the power of the normally aspirated diesel engine in my ‘ 84 Ninety . |
| 15 | I am fed up with being put down and made to feel stupid by him . |
| 16 | I am fed up with always being the bad guy . |
| 17 | I AM fed up with the media blasting Kenya 's tourist industry . |
| 18 | ‘ I am fed up with you useless bunch of midgets ! ’ roared the Trunchbull . |
| 19 | I might as well say it ; I am fed up with people writing to me and saying : ‘ Do n't touch the Ouija board ; it 's bad for your health ’ . ’ |
| 20 | I am fed up with having them in my kitchen ! ’ |
| 21 | I WANT A NUT CASE- I am fed up with Janes so could I have some Claires and Sarahs please . |
| 22 | By the time I am curled up in my bag I am totally content , warm and well fed , exhausted but not wanting to sleep for fear of missing these moments of happiness . |
| 23 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 24 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 26 | Do n't remember going to bed , but I must have done because I am sitting up in Nigel 's parents ' bed writing my diary . |
| 27 | ‘ Saturday morning I am woken up by my children , Jack , three , and Molly , two , they are quite energetic so that stops any chance of a lie in when they start jumping up and down on my bed . |
| 28 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 29 | You see the conclusion I am leading up to . |
| 30 | Giles said : ‘ I can see I must brush up on my Perp and Dec if I am to keep up with you . |