Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [conj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the door she had suddenly looked up and said , ‘ Do n't you eat ? ’ |
| 2 | In the morning , we suddenly woke up and said , ‘ Oh no , — we 're supposed to be getting married at 11 o'clock . |
| 3 | ‘ Well Denis , you 'd better hurry up and say what you were going to say , ’ said Michael . |
| 4 | The person started to read their paper on Moses , and I thought she was doing a good job of it , this guy suddenly got up and said , I 'm Jewish , I 'm not listening to any more of this , and stormed out . |
| 5 | One day one of the girls who came from Birmingham ( she used to come down , work the week and go back up ) , she just got up and said , really unexpectedly , ‘ I 'm going back . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , after about half an hour — the whole lesson — I just dried up and said something like , ‘ Well , that 's it . ’ |
| 7 | I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people . |
| 8 | I ca n't just ring up and say hi two of my , well a friend and an acquaintance |
| 9 | The case is hard to argue against , and even harder after a couple of Tories just get up and say flatly that they will be voting for the lady . |
| 10 | I wish we could just phone up and say that the car 's been snatched |
| 11 | Now can we be assured that Biffa are in fact going to do that same service , not turn up and say , you 're not allowed this , nothing to do with us . |
| 12 | he walks past there , if he really wanted to bust us that bad he 'd probably just come up and say right |
| 13 | I mean a lot of times you know I think just phone up and say , Is mister so and so there and then guard themselves T N T delivery . |
| 14 | I could just turn up and say , oh am I a day too early ? |
| 15 | Yeah they can actually just turn up and say let's have a look at your box . |
| 16 | I mean , that 's like ringing up and saying it 's Jon really is n't it ? |
| 17 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 18 | I 'm one of the people who 've actually got the guts now to stand up and say that I . . |
| 19 | And it 's only a bit of entertainment , and we must really stand up and say this is our game and , it belongs to us ! |
| 20 | If any Member wishes to object , he simply stands up and says ‘ object ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ If I enter the room when she 's talking to Carrie or my ma , she 'll simply dry up and say nothing until I 've left . |
| 22 | But he sat and did n't look up and said , ‘ Hang on for a coach , ’ |
| 23 | I mean obviously if for example did n't ring up and say I want to sign your name your name tomorrow , I 'd ring her up to see whether she 'd lost her mind or something . |
| 24 | One is contained in the sentence which is most often mocked in the Preface to ‘ Paradise Lost ’ : 'A schoolboy who reads a page of Milton by chance , for the first time , and then looks up and says ‘ By Gum ’ , not in the least knowing how the thing has worked , but only that new strength and width and brightness and zest have transformed his world , is nearer to the truth [ than the critics ] . ’ |
| 25 | At last I found a young doctor who gave me a curious look , but I begged him to examine Rachel , which he did , and then looked up and said , ‘ My dear lady , your daughter has bubonic plague ! ’ |
| 26 | Yet he then stood up and said that he would be making a statement in the valleys tomorrow . |
| 27 | Why phoning up and saying that |
| 28 | I know that 's all I 've got , everyone 's going and I say blah blah blah blah blah and then someone else comes up and says what 's that Walkman for and it 's really beginning to annoy me . |
| 29 | and she 's never rung up and said anything about the shirts and trousers , |
| 30 | But he 's not saying that right , you 'd 've thought he , he 'd actually come up and say er er he would have said that for , you know , for his sake and also for the good of the Party . |