Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Then once this morning Fred 's bum was on his blanket and Windy curled up by the side of him . |
2 | Still more are the public fed up with escapes which succeed , and they will be appalled to hear from my right hon. Friend that the cost of damage to our prisons last year exceeded £100 million . |
3 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
4 | Or , or anything , you know so this er man one day he says , we were playing cards , he said , I 'm bloody fed up with this . |
5 | ‘ It 's just that I get real fed up with bozos like you trying to rip me off all the time . |
6 | But the trouble is it would feel pretty uncomfortable trussed up like that . |
7 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |
8 | Er a chap er reported to our lads that there was a suspicious , something suspicious wired up to his back door . |
9 | ‘ I would like to have something makeshift set up by Friday but that depends on an assessment from the health and safety people . |
10 | WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific . |
11 | Taxes were to be uniformly imposed , whereas previously the self-employed paid up to three times as much as state employees . |
12 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
13 | So El-ahrairah called up to him and said , " What news ? " |
14 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp , their Unix efforts will hang separately , IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc and its Univel Inc unit , and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at the UniForum trade show in San Francisco yesterday to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix vendors — but over time , the effort will extend beyond the desktop to embrace common networking , graphics , multimedia , distributed object technology and systems management . |
15 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp Windows NT , their Unix efforts will hang separately , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc , Univel Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at last week 's UniForum trade show in San Francisco to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix workstation vendors ( UX No 427 ) . |
16 | Oh well that 's alright ended up on the cycle path , you know . |