Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police officers called at his home but were forced to withdraw when Say picked up a shotgun and placed the barrels in his mouth . |
| 2 | Marriages get broken up every day . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Marriages get broken up every day . ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 5 | However , actual variable cost has the disadvantage that if the producer is inefficient , then the inefficiencies get passed up the line ; the divisions receiving the goods get lumbered . |
| 6 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've given up the cello for the moment , ’ said Finch . |
| 8 | He could take her away , I thought , he could just do that , he has such power to hurt me , this little furry creature who has n't even noticed that I 've given up the weed . |
| 9 | There 's the odd exception where I 've picked up a brand new one and it 's worked right away . |
| 10 | You see , we 've picked up a thief who had a cape he admits to stealing . |
| 11 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 12 | ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind . |
| 13 | I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've picked up a distress signal . |
| 15 | You 've picked up a book — you might even have bought it — that you thought was about cancer , but all you 're getting is an incoherent autobiography about an unknown . |
| 16 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 17 | No well er I , I expect you 've caught up a bit now have n't you ? |
| 18 | When you 've saved up a card , I do n't know how many there are in it you got a pound worth of gifts at |
| 19 | Whenever the Fedpol think they 've built up a case on one world or another , they find platoons of sharp lawyers appearing , kilocreds are spent , evidence vanishes , witnesses have strange accidents … |
| 20 | And er over the years we 've built up a reputation I know is is a genuine one say that because I know that you 're going to appreciate this course and I use the term very very particularly you will enjoy it . |
| 21 | Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |
| 23 | ‘ And now you 've built up an appetite for sampling some of the fish which may have been brought ashore here ? ’ |
| 24 | He smiles : ‘ I 've grown up a lot and I 'm now enjoying important fights that used to fill me with nerves . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've grown up a lot in the last two years , ’ she said quietly and I silently agreed with her . |
| 26 | ‘ When I 've made up a lie I can believe in , ’ came the reply . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've made up every word of it and you know it . |
| 28 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
| 29 | We 've cleaned up a lot of parts of our city . |
| 30 | We 've , we 've soaked up a lot of pressure without having too many goal attempts at us , and then we 've broke away and scored two goals ; the plan 's worked a treat and I was due to do something right . |