Example sentences of "[verb] up [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they nearly did it brilliant way , remember I had the little labels on them and they 've all got mixed up one way or another |
| 2 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 3 | They 've rung up this morning and apologized . |
| 4 | They 've rung up this morning and apologized . |
| 5 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 6 | A merger between Chase Manhattan and its New York neighbour , Chemical Bank , could free up more money than the two banks ' combined net profit over the past five years . |
| 7 | Calzaghe , from Newbridge , won the welterweight title last year but moved up one weight when he was promised the light-middleweight place in the Welsh squad for the Olympic trials last month in Milan . |
| 8 | As surgeon , explorer , surveyor and Chief Factor , Rae built up invaluable experience and knowledge of the Arctic environment and its peoples . |
| 9 | So , viewers at home , do not hesitate , if you have even the slightest piece of useful data , hook up that modem and call , in complete confidence , our unmonitored SnitchLine on the number that is flashing at the bottom of your screen … |
| 10 | So I well I sent him er our sheets , er sheet about the group and the minutes and er I contacted Michael er , who said he 'll be very happy to help in , so I er phoned up this chap and said , gave him Michael 's number and said erm he 'd like to come to this meeting tonight , he said yes , so I went to pick him up and I just could n't find that blinking house , anyone who knows Harlow , he 's in Parsonage Leys , I just could n't find the number it was , I just could n't find anything less than thirty seven |
| 11 | Did they just pack up one day and go back to Germany ? |
| 12 | Shall we pack up supporting Palace and go to Woking Paulie ? |
| 13 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 14 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 15 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |
| 16 | You have a track record and you build up this understanding and you acquire the skills , and it gets easier and easier . |
| 17 | Are there any exercises I can do to tighten up facial skin and muscles ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 20 | This is because slight frosting on the eyes covers up careless blending and matt lipsticks have often been too dry-looking . |
| 21 | It was somewhere along the lane between Nunes and Hadleigh but so much vegetation had grown up that spring that everything looked different . |
| 22 | Journalists could whip up public indignation but cricket and football authorities were singularly unresponsive to press influence apart from The Times . |
| 23 | A lot of things that I 'd still do here if , if I could whip up some enthusiasm if my husband would , I ca n't , he was a bricklayer , sub contractor and they have knocked this kitchen out about three times since they 've been there , and the last , this last effort , I think they 've put imitation beams in , I have n't seen it , but we think they have and er , oh it 's , you would n't know it 's the same house at all , you would n't know it |
| 24 | I do keep an eye on my colour changer to make sure that it is picking up each colour as it should and I am also very careful to check that I have no ‘ lazy ’ or less than perfect needles as picking up dropped stitches is not a pleasant job . |
| 25 | An idea I have found very useful for picking up unwanted food and rubbish from the bottom of a tank ( such as a bare bottom isolation tank etc. ) is a simple length of rigid tube about ¼″ dia and three or four inches longer than the tank depth . |
| 26 | By Thursday the finding of the clothes was being linked with the Scapegoat ritual , giving the story an angle , and on Friday three reporters were working through the town 's pubs , picking up local colour and gossip . |
| 27 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |
| 28 | Much of the impetus behind such thinking has come from dowsers who realized that they were not just picking up underground water but something else , which they called telluric force . |
| 29 | In 1631 came an edition , from ‘ R. Barker and the Assigns of Bill ’ , which stirred up more trouble than most , particularly for the printers . |
| 30 | I was so cold today , yeah , I got a , I filled up that kettle and I boiled it and I got , I was holding on to it and I fell backwards on to my bed and I burnt myself |