Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm and Miss asked why we were n't friends any more and we goes well she lied and you know , she splits up most people by doing that cos they were trying to tell us the truth and we would n't listen . |
| 2 | and it 's , keep your house warm and it 's this , you know er she comes in , in the middle of the night , she gets up in the middle of the night and the house is lovely and warm , she gets up first thing in the morning and the house is lovely and warm |
| 3 | And she 'd say oh , yes she gets up most nights now , in the middle of the night . |
| 4 | When he turns up next week his trousers 'll be about three inches above his shoes . |
| 5 | I mean , the side bits look nice heavier cos it 's it gives you that it goes up that way . |
| 6 | it goes up that way . |
| 7 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 8 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 9 | But all that happens at the end is that he wakes up one morning , goes outside , gets into a balloon and takes off . ’ |
| 10 | He wakes up one morning and realises he 's been an idiot . |
| 11 | He wakes up one morning and though he does n't know it , he must suspect it — the party 's over . |
| 12 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 13 | ‘ The main reason we go for the leasing option is because it frees up working capital , ’ says John Preen , treasury manager . |
| 14 | He conjures up compelling atmospheres and situations , but they leave us suspended , like his central image , because the controlling idea feels incomplete . |
| 15 | It conjures up vague images of past imperialistic glories which are hardly relevant . |
| 16 | Yeah have you seen when he blows up that guy ? |
| 17 | The method used by the original Canon laser engine is called ‘ write black ’ because it charges up those areas of the drum that are going to become black when printed . |
| 18 | When the main ( COM or EXE ) file reaches a stage where it needs additional instructions from a subsidiary file , it calls up that file and runs through those instructions to complete the task . |
| 19 | In this way the story is just like one of Poe 's : it calls up buried fears . |
| 20 | A popular choice is the corner bath , because although it takes up more floor area than a rectangular bath and runs along two walls , it actually requires less wall length ( typically 1300 or 1400mm ) , allowing more flexibility when planning a moderately sized , squarish bathroom . |
| 21 | ( This means that it takes up more hospital space than any other single illness . ) |
| 22 | And as it takes up little room , tie is also a good idea , ‘ just in case ’ . |
| 23 | When they 're placed on floppies we can use a program ( called a ‘ packer ’ or ‘ zipper ’ ) to encode this information so it takes up less space . |
| 24 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 25 | It opens up new ways of co-operating in Europe . |
| 26 | Most importantly , it opens up new ways of co-operation with our European partners , not just the way of straight-through Community competence and the European court of Justice . |
| 27 | The structure of own resources implied by " once and for all " does appear to resolve the future flexibility of revenue to meet changing circumstances , although it opens up considerable potential for dispute , as it implies part of the revenue from income tax could be designated as " own resources " . |
| 28 | Firstly it is good for our health since it strengthens the heart , secondly it burns up extra calories and helps to increase our metabolic rate , and thirdly it improves the contours of our body . |
| 29 | Set the microphone so that it picks up that group and use the resulting recording to set tasks for trainees which focus them on the learner . |
| 30 | The image sometimes shows incomplete leaves , base and tip present with a segment missing , or it picks up isolated points which do not correspond to subject material . |