Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 2 | The husband is also , of course , the victim of this ruse , but in none of the Italian versions is he built up in any way to provide a substantial target figure . |
| 3 | Marcus could have turned up at any moment . |
| 4 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 5 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 6 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 7 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 8 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 9 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 10 | Two of the main instructions found in the autoexec.bat are PROMPT , and PATH , in which the DOS directory should be included to enable DOS commands to be called up from any location . |
| 11 | It is reported that Akbar , who was an emperor in India from 1542 to 1602 , ordered that a group of children be brought up without any instruction in language , to test the belief that they would eventually speak Hebrew , the language of God . |
| 12 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 13 | The character ca n't be woken up in any way during this time ! |
| 14 | This arrangement , which appears to have much to recommend it in professional terms as well as adding to the attraction of professional posts for recruiting purposes , has not been taken up on any scale by public libraries . |
| 15 | Jane could not get worked up about any car . |
| 16 | it will covered up in any case . |