Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you had any , anybody else phone them up or written to them ? |
| 2 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 3 | I was never conscious of pain , even with a torn ear , a broken nose and split lips , but I do remember occasions of desperate tiredness , and of effort to keep my hands up or stay on my feet . |
| 4 | buttoning their flies up or getting into their boots right . |
| 5 | Er I 've got some notes here which I can go through would n't actually be necessary but When Sally-Ann 's going through her notes if anyone else would like raise anything which backs it up or disagrees with it or whatever then , you know please you know butt in and say whatever think might might be relevant at the time . |
| 6 | The company should organise to pick it up or pay for it to be returned to them . |
| 7 | Throughout 1936 Danzig teachers , trade unionists and politicians who were unsympathetic to the Nazi Party were beaten up or suspended from their jobs . |
| 8 | The lights went on ; we leapt up and pounced on them , adding our howls of ingrate triumph to the general confusion — ending the happy myth not with a whimper but a bang , while Addy , the fellow-conspirator , leant against the wall and laughed herself to helplessness … |
| 9 | Franco made clear what those choices were in a " National Programme for Resurgence " which he personally drew up and passed to his ministers for action in October 1939 . |
| 10 | President , delegates , when this resolution was drawn up and passed by my branch at the latter part of nineteen ninety two , we understood the text of Chancellor Lamont 's Autumn Statement regarding public sector workers and a ceiling of one point five per cent on pay increases starting in nineteen ninety three . |
| 11 | After a minute I get up and go into my old room . |
| 12 | its really cold , yeah oh that was good , I enjoyed that she 's still there , she 's a Lance Corporal now as well and I must admit well I , I did n't think she 'd ev , she was always crying but I never thought she 'd actually do very well in the T A , did n't seem to have the get up and go about it but she obviously sorted herself out and got , Spambo Man they called me . |
| 13 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 14 | The man at the table straightened up and looked at me . |
| 15 | She sat up and looked at me . |
| 16 | The blacksmith straightened up and looked at her . |
| 17 | When he straightened up and looked at her again she saw his face was scarlet with embarrassment . |
| 18 | He glanced up and looked at her again and just for a moment it was as if they were alone in the midst of the hubbub of the fairground . |
| 19 | He tossed her shorts away , then sat up and looked at her with desire-darkened eyes as he tugged down the zip on his own shorts and flung them away . |
| 20 | She stood up and looked at him unyieldingly . |
| 21 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 22 | Hilda Machin pulled herself up and looked at her wristwatch in mock consternation . |
| 23 | Everyone shut up and looked at them . |
| 24 | Tom sat up and looked at them . |
| 25 | And I remember this time in Winners when he , he picked them up and looked at them and said I do n't think these are the right ones for my car and that , that 's why I thought |
| 26 | I was working on some shoes on the table , and Will picked one up and looked at it . |
| 27 | Rachaela got up and looked at it . |
| 28 | I picked it up and looked at it . |
| 29 | Sir Daniel stood up and looked at his watch with some ostentation . |
| 30 | When it passed off he straightened up and looked at his watch . |