Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ken got up that afternoon — he had n't come home till three in the morning — Wendy said , ‘ I 've really got to go back to work ; I 'm drinking too much : this life is driving me mad . ’ |
| 2 | ( The United States built up huge rupee balances which it eventually wrote off . ) |
| 3 | Our Scott woke up one Saturday night about half past about eleven o'clock it was screaming , I said what 's the matter , , I thought I , but he do n't never ever cry really did . |
| 4 | Dennis squeaked up another couple of steps . |
| 5 | Jacob Abendana followed up this success with a Spanish translation of Judah HaLevi 's twelfth-century Kuzari , which was published in 1663 and dedicated to Sir William Davidson , the English resident in Holland . |
| 6 | They left the surgery , and Doc Threadneedle locked up that part of the house . |
| 7 | On his return to Britain , Haworth took up academic appointments , first at Imperial College , London , then at the University of St Andrews , Scotland . |
| 8 | And for some time after that they went to bed at the same time and Ellen gave up both Jed and the Director of Social Services ; and when both threatened , in grief , spite and unreason , to report her infidelity to Bernard , said , ‘ Tell away ! ’ and neither of them did , which rather disappointed her . |
| 9 | I 'm told that Brian Summers put up some money to get the company started and now has quite a significant slice of the Supersight action . ’ |
| 10 | Lucy gave up all thought of getting on with her work . |
| 11 | And , before Cranston could object , Doctor Mirabilis slipped up another alleyway and disappeared out of sight . |
| 12 | The war that followed was a stalemate both sides lost enormous casualties and the Chinese lost far more than anyone else , but the United States wound up that war with forty thousand American dead and with the only er partial success of managing to ma maintain the status quo in South Korea . |
| 13 | Maxham held up two fingers in an obscene gesture . |
| 14 | Jake got up this morning I goes going down then ? |
| 15 | Ronni dredged up some sanity from the depths of her half-stunned brain , detached her lips from Guido 's and pushed him away . |
| 16 | A similar appeal in May turned up new faces , several of whom are still in the reckoning for a place on the under-international panel . |
| 17 | Pople followed up this publication with two papers on the statistical mechanics of assemblies of axially symmetric molecules ; interpretations of electron interactions in unsaturated hydrocarbons ; collaboration ( with Christopher Longuet Higgins ) on the spectra of aromatic molecules on solvent spectral shifts ; the theory of the Renner effect ( Strong coupling between electronic and vibrational modes in a molecule leading to a breakdown of a Born-Oppenheimer approximation — it became a standard work ) ; and his recognition of the value of NMR as a tool for chemistry is revealed in the early issues of Molecular Physics . |
| 18 | ‘ Before leaving , Risdon tied up both men , left them face down in the bathroom , and fired a gun into the mattress , ’ claimed Mr Curtis . |
| 19 | Maggie blew up two balloons and handed them to Colin . |
| 20 | She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater . |
| 21 | Friends of the Earth have calculated that if China , India , Indonesia and Brazil took up this concession fully until 1995 , global production would have doubled from the 1986 level . |
| 22 | Milan : The underlying tone remained weak as the MIB edged up one point to 1,174 . |
| 23 | Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH put up some money for the development of Viking , and Memorex Telex NV had been planning to market the product too , but is understood to have pulled out . |
| 24 | Simon gave up half way through , but of course , he could have finished , if he had wished : he just did not feel like it . |
| 25 | Nigel gave up all belief in things occult after that and asked for his money back . |
| 26 | Nilsen picked up young men in London before bringing them to his home . |
| 27 | To achieve this , Claudius set up two client kingdoms in the south-east , one with Prasutagus as King of the Iceni , and the other with Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus as King of the two tribes , the Regini and the Atrebates . |
| 28 | Giles picked up another stone and dropped it . |
| 29 | Events in Eastern Europe and more particularly in East Germany opened up new dangers and opportunities . |
| 30 | Tom heated up some water on the range for the dirty dishes . |