Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get int car , and it 's warm so I end up switching heater and winding window down . |
| 2 | Only she looked up first into his eyes , and again saw that his eyes were gentle . |
| 3 | It maybe faithful for a long time , perhaps you build up that trust , and it 's only once you 've got beyond that , that you can then begin to actually influence er , negotiate with them . |
| 4 | So you pick up these things . |
| 5 | So you set up some sort of indent . |
| 6 | So we picked up one of the little floaters provided at the port , and went exploring . |
| 7 | So they pick up full speed and run for cover — and your net should be carefully positioned so they hit it just before reaching safety . |
| 8 | So they fitted up one of their own liners , The Atlas , for the accommodation of blacklegs . |
| 9 | So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse . |
| 10 | So they make up this game with negative numbers but it works very well it 's very useful . |
| 11 | So they packed up some pears and pineapples — set off well before the light hours |
| 12 | ‘ Thus we wind up this wonderful year , ’ wrote Horace Walpole on 30 November as the news of Quiberon arrived , the phrase heard on all lips and picked up that Christmas by David Garrick in the aptly named pantomime , Harlequin 's Invasion : |
| 13 | Tonight we take up that challenge . |
| 14 | ‘ Tonight we offer up this Holy Rosary for the repose of the soul of James McQuaid . ’ |
| 15 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 16 | You see how quickly I pick up English ways of talking . |
| 17 | any entertainment sort of thing or , or like you ring up best on the thing |
| 18 | And , and probably you pick up some of the language used to describe this , you know . |
| 19 | Interestingly it pointed up one of the fundamental differences between the two of them . |
| 20 | Some arsehole right is going to pick up and say oh well I phoned up this and y'know and then phoned the bloody managing director |
| 21 | Well I bought up three children |
| 22 | Well I reckoned up this morning we reckoned it 'll perhaps be at fifty two , but we were wrong were n't we ? |
| 23 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 25 | Four years ago she set up American Express offices at ICI Billingham and Wilton , and now has a staff of 24 , operating five days a week selling holidays to chemical workers She said : ‘ We 're probably one of the largest offices in the area . |
| 26 | Here you pick up 2 to 3 centimetres of flesh on the thigh and roll it between your fingers and thumb ( Fig 23 ) . |
| 27 | He started playing when he was 11 and today he chalked up 70 not out . |
| 28 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 29 | Well he come up last Friday but you were n't in . |
| 30 | William Lambarde loved Halling and during his time here he built up good relations . |