Example sentences of "[verb] up [pos pn] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1987 , at the agency 's request , Coleman had looked up his best man , Michael Franks , a.k.a . |
| 2 | There was no way they 'd give up their best friends . |
| 3 | Now you can do that on the step , in fact do n't go from a house to a bungalow , you give up your best form of exercise , now I know people say ooh well when you get older you ca n't get up and down . |
| 4 | We must keep up our good name , right Will ? ’ |
| 5 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 6 | Once they were back in the billet Charlie folded up his best suit and placed it under the bed next to the one Tommy had settled on , then swaggered around the room in his new uniform . |
| 7 | They do n't have to give up their best rooms and their freedom and not be mistress in their own house , and wait on people like that any more . ’ |
| 8 | Since most of them have been in the army of the Lord for many years , church members will no doubt want to give up their best rooms for these dear people . |
| 9 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 10 | PRINCESS Diana has promised to keep up her good work for charities , including Relate , the marriage-guidance organisation . |
| 11 | Lancashire had run up their best total , 264 for three , to give the Tykes a mountain to climb . |
| 12 | Rusch de Farges , an ex-French gelding , won two of his six races last season both in soft ground and put up his best effort when beaten three lengths by Barnbrook Again at levels in the Arlington Chase Final over two and a half miles at Cheltenham last January . |
| 13 | Rusch de Farges , an ex-French gelding , won two of his six races last season both in soft ground and put up his best effort when beaten three lengths by Barnbrook Again at levels in the Arlington Chase Final over two and a half miles at Cheltenham last January . |
| 14 | At 11 he won a seat on the school council by putting up his best friend to split the opposition vote ( ‘ I always was a devious bugger ’ ) , at 14 he joined Greenpeace and at 16 paid thirty bob to become a Liberal . |
| 15 | Oliver Sherwood 's gelding was a decent novice last season , putting up his best effort when second to Strong Gold at Newbury in March . |
| 16 | But I mean you 've , you 've actually passed up your good news by putting it so far down that the editor might well have read the first paragraph . |
| 17 | Having blown up his good engine in practice , Mark was forced to use his second motor in the race , and did very well to get as good a finish as he did . |
| 18 | This is where my question was coming I ask the convenor why the committee failed to follow up their good work by not promoting the kidney donor cards through ministers to the congregation . |
| 19 | The 28-year-old , whose interest in running began when he represented his school as a teenage athlete , has competed in three Potteries Marathons clocking up his best time of three hours and two minutes . |