Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up some [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 2 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 3 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |
| 4 | During the liberation struggle , the two liberation movements , the Zimbabwe African Peoples ' Union ( ZAPU ) and the Zimbabwe African National Union ( ZANU ) , had set up some education programmes for fighters and for refugees . |
| 5 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , he tried to find some comforting way to explain it : maybe the Israelis had set up some sort of contingency fund . |
| 7 | At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job . |