Example sentences of "[vb past] up a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mala 's vigorous snort stirred up a few echoes , but no one looked around . |
| 2 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 3 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 4 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 5 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 6 | Cardiff foreshore turned up a few conger and codling . |
| 7 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 8 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 9 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
| 10 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 11 | A woman got up a few rows back , and threw the hood off her head . |
| 12 | The original entrance foyer on the main road behind the square was barred and boarded and papered over with layers of handbills ; Carson walked up a few steps near the end of the alley and pushed open the door of a tradesman 's entrance . |
| 13 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |
| 14 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 15 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 16 | We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls . |
| 17 | ‘ The NEB … sent up a few people to take samples and they produced an interim report on the levels of radioactivity in the area . |
| 18 | A breath of cold , fresh air wafted over his face , as the heavy wooden square eased up a few inches . |
| 19 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 20 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 21 | The knife sprang into the air , arced up a few inches as if powered by a small spring . |
| 22 | After living with his aunt for four years , Mr Banks moved in with his girlfriend , but he moved back home last September after the couple split up a few weeks later and became very depressed . |
| 23 | Black , rather coarse , straight hairs are most plentiful ; then there were finer , dark-brown hairs on the jacket and shirt ; finally , we picked up a few animal hairs almost certainly from a cat . ’ |
| 24 | Rushie picked up a few lira and an Armani suit but it 's probably fair to say our golden boy from St Asaph did n't exactly win the freedom of Turin . |
| 25 | He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed . |