Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The faint sound of his cello , as I lay tucked up in bed , is woven into my childhood memories . |
| 2 | ‘ I got fed up with people offering to buy me out so they could open another damn casino , ’ Aggie says . |
| 3 | ‘ I meant to get some food on my way home , but I got held up at college , ’ she explained , examining various other articles in the fridge with distaste . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd gone up to Ethel 's sister to cheer her up because she was looking so miserable . |
| 5 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |
| 6 | I 'd turned up on NBC talking about Middle East narco-terrorism right after Flight 103 crashed . |
| 7 | I thought I 'd woken up in Heaven . |
| 8 | I get chatted up from time to time , though if you have a small child — ’ she glanced through the mirror at Thomas ‘ — not too many men want to become involved . |
| 9 | I get fed up with people always assuming that refugees have nothing positive to offer this country and that they are merely bringing or being problems . |
| 10 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 11 | I had grown up with class but it was a shifting , unstable , changing force and you fancied across it regardless , for the world was open . |
| 12 | I had grown up in Addis Ababa where there were few permanent buildings other than the Legations . |
| 13 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 14 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 15 | fucking er it was like that but they ai n't just do n't go and get very close to the like that So I 've gone up under arch of the wheel got my like that right state I got in ! |
| 16 | But I 've grown up with David , or , should I say , I grew up idolising him . |
| 17 | I 've grown up among people who 've always tried to hide passion . |
| 18 | It 's changing drastically now and and erm er I mean I 've kept up to date with it now |
| 19 | ‘ No thanks Dee , I 've given up on climbing , it 's a bit boring . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've stacked up with Finmarks . |
| 21 | I 've caught up with Bryan Adams on the Cardiff leg of his hugely popular ‘ Waking Up The Neighbours ’ jaunt , and frankly I 'm a relieved man . |
| 22 | Ironside , who produced a string of spectacular saves , said : ‘ That 's the best performance I 've put up in front of the television cameras and such a big crowd . ’ |
| 23 | But I have clammed up about L. Feel superstitious . |
| 24 | No , it 's alright cos someone 's rung up from home , say be in eight o'clock , so she wants to do something . |
| 25 | It is a line which has stirred up against Macedo the same emnities which led to Chico Mendes 's murder . |
| 26 | That is the opinion of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation ( UNIDO ) which has teamed up with Apple , a leading American maker of microcomputers , to produce a package of programs aimed at the finance ministries of developing countries . |
| 27 | The cable television industry is said to be leery of handing over a standard to a third party such as Microsoft Corp , which has teamed up with Intel Corp to develop a set-top control box based on the 80386 and Windows ; the 80386 is also regarded as underpowered for graphics work . |
| 28 | The session had been intended to set a date for reconvening the 14th party congress , which had broken up in disarray on Jan. 23 [ see pp. 37172 ] . |
| 29 | The crisis which had blown up over Tito 's claim to Carinthia and Venezia Giulia was nearing its height . |
| 30 | Some time after , Mahmud Pasa grew jealous of the closeness which had grown up between Mehmed II and Hocazade . |