Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they nearly did it brilliant way , remember I had the little labels on them and they 've all got mixed up one way or another |
| 2 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 3 | They 've rung up this morning and apologized . |
| 4 | They 've rung up this morning and apologized . |
| 5 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | It was somewhere along the lane between Nunes and Hadleigh but so much vegetation had grown up that spring that everything looked different . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats have built up strong support and expect to win . |
| 11 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
| 12 | In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season . |
| 13 | I never overstayed my welcome and always dreamed up some excuse if any of them suggested meeting me outside working hours . |
| 14 | Got up all night and walked round and round and round on his blooming bad leg ! |
| 15 | Here , it seemed , was a chap who had got up one morning and resolved to query the £4 billion we spend annually on science . |
| 16 | IT WAS almost shock horror time when the blues recently got up one morning and decided to take a walk through the pop charts in the form of John Lee Hooker 's ‘ Boom Boom ’ . |
| 17 | I 'd planned it all out , not the day , just got up one morning and thought , ‘ This is it , I 've had enough . |
| 18 | Mark right , he 's got up this morning and he 's gone to Tenby . |
| 19 | By the time we reboarded the pavilion , after barely an hour 's play , in deference to the rising tide , we had probably soaked up more liquid than the pitch . |
| 20 | Most managers have already used up that leeway since share option schemes took off in 1985 . |
| 21 | And it was brought up last time that erm , in the Potter Street area , not enough was being done to occupy the minds of the |
| 22 | ‘ And I 've brought up some bread and jam , in case anybody 's hungry . ’ |
| 23 | It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ . |
| 24 | All I 'm supposed to be his friends cut up all morning And Maureen asked him to cut them out I E to go round the edge . |
| 25 | If I 'd known what it was I would have chopped up that snow-plough before the snows arrived . ’ |
| 26 | But a winter of hard work , tuning and rebuilding the engine , has rounded up more speed and Ian knows he can stay with the very best . |
| 27 | I , you know , usually for the hundred tonight I meant to be served up one packet and that means Wednesday buying |
| 28 | Hearing society , however , has not taken up this responsibility nor seen that all society 's members have a right of access to society 's knowledge . |
| 29 | Since losing her sight , Philippa Bastable has taken up competitive swimming and has a new career , too |
| 30 | Work preparing the ‘ Marco Polo ’ story for the studio had taken up more time and resources than was originally envisaged . |