Example sentences of "[verb] up when [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I could n't cope with a relationship that was so physical , I started to freeze up when you touched me .
2 ‘ I just cracked up when I saw him .
3 I woke up when someone shook me by the shoulder .
4 She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’
5 She only glanced up when she felt his shadow fall across her .
6 ‘ All the people waiting at the bus stops were shrivelled up with the cold ; they looked so miserable standing there but cheered up when they saw us coming along .
7 Dolly perked up when he brought it , because the tray contained two cups , together with the pot itself .
8 His ferocious idealism made her think over and over again in terror of what her father would have said to her , and what she would have replied , if he had woken up when she shook him .
9 But then when they went up when they passed it just two year ago it was fenced off .
10 She looked up when he reached her , her eyes glittering .
11 He looked up when he heard her , and Fran felt a ripple of heat curl along her veins when she saw the smile curving his lips .
12 His face lit up when he saw her .
13 Her eyes lit up when she opened it and found it full of farthings .
14 Surely Perdita would n't kick up when she knew she was going to Argentina .
15 I do n't think the snake had fully wakened up when I caught it , and I was careful not to jar it as I ran back to where my brothers and Blyth were lying on the grass .
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