Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [vb past] up [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dreamed last night that I sat by a fire with Grandmother & my brother & when I woke up I still felt my brother 's hand . |
| 2 | He had a calm lean face never to be called handsome and if he looked up he would put on his quick protective smile to say Do n't ask about me I 'm all right talk about somebody else … |
| 3 | And if you played up she used to chuck the blackboard rubber at you . |
| 4 | I got into Edinburgh and before I came up I took a year off and worked and travelled . |
| 5 | I used to be a partner in a wine merchants , and when we sold up I took all the best stuff . |
| 6 | And when we broke up I , I said , er well that 's it now . |
| 7 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 8 | I do n't know ; they held me down and when I woke up I was in the back of a car on my way home . |
| 9 | And when I woke up I had ants in my pants , |
| 10 | He had a few drinks and fell asleep and when he woke up he was in bed and Beryl was lying beside him . |
| 11 | He fell flat on his belly , his limbs splayed out sideways and backwards in unnatural angles , and when he stood up he could hardly move … the rhythm was shattered , the dream was over , and the race was lost . |
| 12 | For a moment Louisa wondered whether this platitudinous sentiment might be turned to advantage , but it could not be done without contrivance ; and when she looked up she saw how the Rector 's face aspired to bravery . |
| 13 | He was silent and when she looked up he had pushed his supper aside . |
| 14 | They were in , aha , yeah , they were in bed , right , and this , look , in bed , listen to this , sound asleep it 's on the radio and news , they 're asleep in bed with two girls and the boys , the boy was in bed fast asleep and somebody come and touched him like that and when she woke up it was this , this the lad |
| 15 | She swung her long tanned legs over the edge of the bed , forgetting for a moment that she was naked underneath the loosely tied robe , and when she stood up she could feel his eyes trailing insultingly at the V where her naked breasts could be glimpsed . |
| 16 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
| 17 | Even as a small boy , Thomas had been interested in mechanical toys and as he grew up he determined to become an engineer like our father , who was a regular Royal Engineer . |
| 18 | Jacob was still not the daughter she had set her heart on , but even though he was a male child he was , at least , physically recognisable as her offspring , and as he grew up he displayed artistic tendencies of a kind which she was sure could have flowered in her had she been given the chance . |
| 19 | She came to share many of his interests and tastes and as she grew up she became something of a. companion to him . |
| 20 | The striker said : ‘ I have no idea what happends next but if something came up I would have to consider it . ’ |
| 21 | But after I locked up I took it round to Mr Bishop 's brother . ’ |
| 22 | I do not know how long I was asleep , but when I woke up I was cold and wet . |
| 23 | I pushed them away with a shudder , but when I looked up I saw , lying on a shelf opposite , an infant or Cupid carved in black marble . |
| 24 | But when I looked up I saw I was underneath a car . |
| 25 | The sickness lightened a little and her spirits rose , but when she got up she felt sticky warmth between her thighs . |
| 26 | But when she woke up she could n't tell them because they might take the meanings away . |