Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 2 | Larger family size alone usually made for a very different situation from that of a grandchild brought up alone by a grandparent today . |
| 3 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 4 | It 's a bit blocked up at the moment but yeah it would |
| 5 | ‘ Eventually I got a bit fed up . |
| 6 | I got a bit fed up after we 'd toured Britain once , it got a bit boring seeing the same places . ’ |
| 7 | We 're all a bit fed up , but it 'll pass . |
| 8 | And there was lots of the we came to an end and if we were going to carry on with this further we the everybody was getting a bit fed up with it . |
| 9 | The the laws for I do n't know I mean I get a bit fed up . |
| 10 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 11 | ‘ I get a bit fed up sometimes , ’ she confessed to the older woman . |
| 12 | I get a bit fed up with that . |
| 13 | Well I certainly would n't , but I know somebody else was getting a bit fed up but |
| 14 | Getting a bit fed up with this weather . |
| 15 | but I 'm getting a bit fed up with it this week |
| 16 | Because , after all , what happens that last year 's model it wears , y y , you 're a bit fed up with it ! |
| 17 | And you get a bit fed up of it , I mean , after all , unless you 're into sort of |
| 18 | So er , he has n't had a very good day at work , a bit fed up . |
| 19 | She 's getting a bit fed up |
| 20 | I mean , we all know that having to shake tins , the number of people who go past by on the other side , and I think that we do have to be careful with the numbers , and even those people who normally give do get a bit fed up if there are too many . |
| 21 | I 've got a bit puffed up again , had a few headaches . |
| 22 | She gets a bit cooped up in that hotel sometimes . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Actually , that poor girl 's a bit cut up about something , ’ Leo said , putting an affectionate arm around the younger man 's shoulders as they watched Cindy in the garden . |
| 24 | I 'm a bit stirred up just now and find myself unable to control those feelings that ought to be controlled . ’ |
| 25 | She was a bit shaken up last night . |
| 26 | You looked a bit shaken up . ’ |
| 27 | Of course , I already had some experience with the various falconers ' knots and changing jesses with a bird perched on my fist , but poor old Derek got himself a bit tied up . |
| 28 | Auntie Jo says : ‘ I 'm … a bit tied up … ooh … at the moment ! |
| 29 | The rooms , erm we 've tried to this has been a bit tied up since the broadcast , we 've tried to have it fairly cluttery so that kids for instance if they 're not used to sheep , can come and come and have a sniff of of of er you know . |
| 30 | Possible slight nerve damage to the right arm — the brachial plexus was a bit chewed up , but he 's been remarkably lucky . |