Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] up [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 2 | " Thank God you did , or I 'd have cracked up and had even less money saved than I have now . " |
| 3 | Besides , it 's too late in the year , all the chicks will have grown up and flown away by now . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I think you would have got up and walked out , but I wanted to stay on for ever . |
| 5 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 6 | Slowly Maura went to get her coat , hoping against hope that if she took long enough Margaret would get fed up and go home . |
| 7 | I think about how I could get dressed up and go out somewhere , for a couple of hours , and just leave it all , because I get so sick of it sometimes … |