Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The Liberal Democrats have built up strong support and expect to win . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Got up all night and walked round and round and round on his blooming bad leg ! |
| 11 | Here , it seemed , was a chap who had got up one morning and resolved to query the £4 billion we spend annually on science . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I 'd planned it all out , not the day , just got up one morning and thought , ‘ This is it , I 've had enough . |
| 14 | Mark right , he 's got up this morning and he 's gone to Tenby . |
| 15 | ‘ And I 've brought up some bread and jam , in case anybody 's hungry . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I , you know , usually for the hundred tonight I meant to be served up one packet and that means Wednesday buying |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Since losing her sight , Philippa Bastable has taken up competitive swimming and has a new career , too |
| 22 | Work preparing the ‘ Marco Polo ’ story for the studio had taken up more time and resources than was originally envisaged . |
| 23 | They should they should have got us all lined up single file and alphabetical order , taking them in . |
| 24 | I did n't have to think ‘ Well , if I put that dress on I 'll only get it dirty because the baby will be sick over me ’ — to be dressed up all day and feel you can be clean and only have nice jobs to do and always be with people … |