Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 2 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 3 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 4 | She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed . |
| 5 | Americans suddenly got fed up with all these Russians who were n't Nureyevs . |
| 6 | I got fed up of all that daft nonsense . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage . |
| 8 | Behind the sand-dunes , schools , offices , churches , a market , a railway station , a radio station and hundreds of homes began to spring up with all the rapidity of a cow-town on the American prairie . |
| 9 | He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers . |
| 10 | So Connie Fraser had turned up after all . |
| 11 | You know , you had to put up with all that , you had to take your chances in them days . |
| 12 | It was a peak everyone had worked up to all week , in a way through all the dark dreary closed early part of the year . |
| 13 | There was high excitement ; the race had lived up to all expectations . |
| 14 | In March they returned to England , and he attempted to catch up with all the work and correspondence he had left behind . |