Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] up [det] [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 she 'd say oh , yes she gets up most nights now , in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | I mean , the side bits look nice heavier cos it 's it gives you that it goes up that way . |
| 4 | it goes up that way . |
| 5 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 8 | Yeah have you seen when he blows up that guy ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( This means that it takes up more hospital space than any other single illness . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Intermediate wringing during the drying stage speeds up the process , as mop absorption rates vary in that the more water a mop holds the slower it picks up more water . |
| 17 | ‘ You assume it slams up some kind of barrier around you . |
| 18 | It seems that every time Robin sets sail in his venerable old craft he picks up some award or other . |
| 19 | For example , if the accused was reconnoitring a home preparatory to burglary , he may not be guilty of this offence if he picks up some ladders which he has found in the garden . |
| 20 | He picks up any woman of the town . |
| 21 | The nine-year-old has been a fine servant for trainer David Nicholson and , although a few pounds below the very best over two miles , he picks up enough prize-money each year to comfortably pay his oats bill . |
| 22 | No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead . |
| 23 | It rounds up any years that are left over . |
| 24 | When the press finally has to confront masculinist music head on , it gives up any attempt to reclaim it , and tries instead to deny its allure by poking fun at it . |
| 25 | It smartens up this autumn , looking tailored and trim at just above the knee , or lean and layered for longer lengths . |
| 26 | It smartens up this autumn , looking tailored and trim at just above the knee , or lean and layered for longer lengths . |
| 27 | Yeah it makes up that money that were missing . |
| 28 | ‘ Neither do I. Opens up all sorts of avenues of interesting speculation , does n't it ? ’ |