Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was fed up with the yucky mouldy silicone round the edge and reckoned a proper job should be done on it . |
| 32 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |
| 33 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 34 | The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café . |
| 35 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 36 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 37 | I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road . |
| 38 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 39 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 40 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 41 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 42 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 43 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 44 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 45 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 46 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 47 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 48 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 49 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 50 | I was brought up before the era of sex education and I managed to get by . |
| 51 | ‘ We 're going to take a few more , ’ and I was ushered up onto the big machine . |
| 52 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 53 | I was travelling up from the English coast on my way to London to arrange the final leg of my journey home . |
| 54 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 55 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 56 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 57 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 58 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 59 | Neighbour Brian Dean , a 55-year-old chauffeur , said : ‘ I was woken up by the police cars lining up in the middle of the street . |
| 60 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |