Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I invited them up this morni They were so excited this morning when I came down . |
| 2 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 3 | She had a daughter , Rosemary Worty , who looked up to me because I locked her up one night . |
| 4 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 5 | ‘ Wrote a snotty letter to the poor chap at Kenwards — I rang him up first , of course , he was embarrassed all over again — asking him to ask his client to leave mine alone . |
| 6 | I rang her up last night . |
| 7 | And er I picked it up other night , says , can I ta speak to Steven ? |
| 8 | You woke me up this morning I tell you Sid . |
| 9 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |
| 10 | Did I , but you you you brought it up last meeting , that that that erm people were going as supposed to be coming back with good ideas as to how to cope with interviews in other rooms , but we said in last time that we were going to have a personal round bill . |
| 11 | er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit |
| 12 | So we got it up that way . |
| 13 | We served them up corned beef , cheese , pickles and hot cocoa , and they threw it back at us . |
| 14 | And er and it all and you used to when our Queen 's grandfather was crowned king in nineteen hundred and ten , ooh they trimmed it up beautiful . |
| 15 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 16 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
| 17 | They thought it up all by themselves ! ’ |
| 18 | Rushing to buy the dollar ( mainly by selling D-marks ) to cover their dollar loans , they pushed it up four pfennigs within an hour . |
| 19 | He led her up another tortuous steel staircase , its steps worn and buckled , across improvised bridges and rickety gangways , up higher and higher , until they were crouching next to the very source of the molten metal . |
| 20 | He led us up four flights of dark , narrow stairs , before disappearing up a rickety ladder out on to the roof . |
| 21 | There 's nothing worse than keeping something like that to yourself It cracked me up terrible . |
| 22 | And then ranted and raved cos she probably just about going off then , you see it woke her up all the fuss and kerfuffle ! |
| 23 | But he woke me up this morning to wish me a happy anniversary . |
| 24 | But erm , if so , please get in touch before Wednesday as they 've , he rang me up last night and asked for a final figure from us which he must |
| 25 | He rang me up last night to say that he is more or less confined to barracks now in the evening now that Phil is home . |
| 26 | Party Politics , known as an equine giant in racing circles because of his massive size , was cruising when he took it up four fences from home , and winning jockey Carl Llewellyn later admitted that his chief concern at that stage had been striking the front too early . |
| 27 | Well anyway Friday night he slept all night Saturday night he had her up all day ! |