Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 2 | At this staging camp I picked up some mail . |
| 3 | But er of course I gave up that and went er when I went on to the council . |
| 4 | After tea she wrapped up some fruit cake for me to take back home . |
| 5 | At Chemical they went up 61 per cent and at Chase Manhattan by 84 per cent . |
| 6 | When added to the usual treatments for this condition it cleared up persistent ulcers in 40 out of 60 cases . |
| 7 | ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing . |
| 8 | After retirement she took up many interests including cookery to a very high standard . |
| 9 | They were doing in that shop exactly what they intended to do and in all probability , what they intended to do from the moment they got up that morning . |
| 10 | Last night I sat up last night to watch that George Foreman fight and they had to put football on before it and I fell asleep and I missed the bloody fight ! |
| 11 | On that one day he notched up five kills although Fighter Command downrated them to four ‘ probables ’ . |
| 12 | One day he picked up one of the elongated putters used to such devastating effect on the fabulously rich US Seniors ' Tour by such as Orville Moody , a notoriously fragile performer on the greens until he turned 50 . |
| 13 | We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue . |
| 14 | One man was so overcome by the gig he jumped up next to the band and harassed the crowd into giving them a standing ovation . |
| 15 | The next morning he packed up all his mother 's clothes . |
| 16 | With a swift movement he picked up one of the Lal Khals and kissed it on its head . |
| 17 | Between 1980 and their split they notched up five albums and their entire back-catalogue has been re-promoted and released on CD for the first time . |
| 18 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 19 | The morning after the trial he woke up soaked with sweat . |
| 20 | They were next to mine , and in my hurry I picked up both sets . ’ |
| 21 | Another item I picked up some time ago from across the Atlantic was the information that the British 7′¼″ gauge was only found on the Great Eastern , a piece of information that I 'm sure Vic Smith will agree to be even more surprising than anything in his talk ! |
| 22 | Back at the bank I tackled up two rods with 4lb line and 14 's hooks in the usual paternoster method , i.e. a yard hook length and nine inch bomb length . |
| 23 | The Oakley gave her the brush of the only fox they broke up that day . |
| 24 | Last Autumn it gave up all pretence of continuing on in the business and sold off its Personal Mainframe hardware interests to clone newcomer Digital Systems Research ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 25 | The way we set up this system management , the procedure owner has the master copy of related forms . |
| 26 | That same year they took up that old chestnut , the inspection of laundries attached to Roman Catholic ( and now Anglican ) nunneries ; they were annoyed that these had been excluded from the Factory Bill then before Parliament . |
| 27 | He was enough of a prig to revel in disgracing any poor sod he dug up some real dirt about . |
| 28 | ‘ Just iced water , thanks , ’ he said the next time she screwed up enough nerve to go back to his table . |
| 29 | So if your virus scanner was set to check once a day it would not run it every time you boot up , only the first time you booted up that day , excellent ! |
| 30 | It is time we gave up these reservations in work organizations . |