Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart seemed to go climbing up inside her chest , but it was n't till Jake 's hand clamped over her mouth again that she realized she 'd been about to scream . |
| 2 | I 'd got fed up with her everlasting sweetness and shown her up in class the day before . |
| 3 | If only he 'd got caught up in politics , or good works , or become a governor of his old school , he 'd have been taken out of himself more ? |
| 4 | To do that almost seemed to entail giving up on the course altogether . |
| 5 | ‘ So would you have if you 'd had to put up with half of what I 've been through in the past ! |
| 6 | White flung the pair of lemon panties he 'd had scrunched up in his coat pocket on to the arm of the chair I was sitting in . |
| 7 | One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks . |
| 8 | She seemed to have jumped up from nowhere . |
| 9 | Her brain , as usual , seemed to have seized up in Roman 's overpowering company . |
| 10 | Benjamin 's stomach seemed to have caught up with his memories for he now looked white-faced and confessed he felt queasy . |
| 11 | He 'd planned to storm up to General Kopyion and demand to be told what the Justice Police were doing to prevent further bloodshed . |
| 12 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 13 | Apparently I 'd chosen to pee up against a police station , so they took me inside , and told me off , and of course I apologized . |
| 14 | They claimed to have killed up to 200 government soldiers , especially in the provinces of Chalatenango , Morazan and Usulutan where fighting had been fiercest , and to have " neutralized " the main Ilopango air base near the capital , San Salvador . |
| 15 | On the other hand , there are philistines who apparently believe that all new ideas , no matter how subtle , can be conveyed in the terms they happened to have picked up at their mother 's knee , and reject any attempt to expand the language into areas beyond the nursery . |
| 16 | Flattered , even , that someone so utterly different and reserved had opened up to her , late-thirties dyke pottering around to nowhere . |
| 17 | Administer oxygen if prescribed ( usually humidified to prevent drying up of the mucus and paralysis of the protective cilia ) . |
| 18 | As Charles limped along Praed Street , he began to regret dressing up for the encounter , but when he reflected on the exceptional violence of blackmailers in all detective fiction , he decided it was as well to conceal his identity . |
| 19 | Blake needed to run to keep up with the indignant Doctor . |
| 20 | I kept imagining coming up to London to see you . |
| 21 | The man was n't watching the light room he saw smoke coming up under the so he went away down and there was a fire in a in the er in the library . |
| 22 | At that point , she did n't plan to be a singer , though she did enjoy dressing up as Olivia Newton John and singing into her hairbrush in front of the mirror . |
| 23 | Supermarkets everywhere reported excellent trading as whole families flocked to combine stocking up for Christmas with a day 's outing . |
| 24 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 25 | He seemed to like that , although he did get fed up with it . |
| 26 | Places dedicated to film presentation , the penny gaffes , did start to spring up at the beginning of the new century , but it was only with the emergence of long films around 1910 that cinema acquired any sort of institutional presence in British towns . |
| 27 | Outside the study door Murray strode forward without a word and Richard , bewildered , had to trot to keep up with him . |
| 28 | I had also discovered that there would be little , if any , use for a car on Moila , so both my brother and I had arranged to travel up by train . |
| 29 | Here a thriving brewing quarter had developed made up of alewife , innkeeper and alehouse brewers . |
| 30 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |