Example sentences of "why [verb] you [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did you bring up stare decisis in front of me ? ’ |
| 2 | Why did you think up this secret system of approaching only you ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why did you give up Formula One ? ’ she enquired . |
| 4 | " Why did you take up forestry ? " she asked him . |
| 5 | ‘ Why did you put up with it ? ’ |
| 6 | Why did you put up with it ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits , now , Melanie ? |
| 8 | Then Gedanken said , ‘ Uncle , if you like being on your own a lot , why do you put up with me ? |
| 9 | Why do you pick up the evening paper and linger over tales of local gossip or distress when you have important tasks to carry out ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why have you turned up again like the bad penny ? ’ |
| 11 | Then one day the foreman came and said ‘ Mrs Desai , why have you packed up ? ’ |
| 12 | I do n't mean , I mean why have you taken up the other , the plastic bag and put it in that ? |
| 13 | A particular scene appeared before her eyes : her father is sitting hunched over a pile of torn photographs , and Agnes 's sister is shouting at him : ‘ Why have you torn up Mother 's pictures ? |