Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
| 2 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 3 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 4 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 7 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 8 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 9 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 10 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 13 | Some were veterans of News on Sunday 's many faction fights but now , for once , they stopped ganging up on each other and ganged up on Sutton . |
| 14 | Neighbours reported hearing up to eight shots before the gunmen made off on foot . |
| 15 | She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed . |
| 16 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 17 | Then , when I got fed up with that , I 'd go downstairs and make a racket on the old upright piano my nan had lent us . |
| 18 | They got fed up with that . |
| 19 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
| 20 | Nah , I got fed up with that . ’ |
| 21 | I was that for about , I soon got fed up with that job . |
| 22 | whatever so there was something to keep them occupied and erm you know have a bag and as soon as they got fed up with that right you 'd get something else out to take their interest and |
| 23 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 24 | Americans suddenly got fed up with all these Russians who were n't Nureyevs . |
| 25 | Our man got fed up with this nonsense . |
| 26 | So I got fed up with this . |
| 27 | I got fed up of all that daft nonsense . |
| 28 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 29 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 30 | JUST WHEN you 'd given up on Italian House , along come more chattering piano breaks and gusty female vocals to drag you back onto your feet . |