Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] up and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had er his name was Jimmy they had er well one used t one old gentleman used to be a yes and his name was Jimmy , the waiter , that 's right I , I get a , I have to think because I , I sometimes get mixed up and I 'm at Cambridge and you see it was a long time ago , you see , so , since I was young and I was then . |
| 2 | It 's Your pipes get clogged up and the bore down the middle gets thinner and thinner so the water sort of hardly trickles through . |
| 3 | I think they get fed up and I do n't think that a that language-wise they have the vocabulary in the school to be able to pluck out meaningful comments and you know , and go right across the curriculum there I think |
| 4 | If I get fed up and take another wee day off , maybe a Sunday or something like that . |
| 5 | If you try to push them under a place to see if it 's touching , you 'll find they get bent up and once there 's a bend in you ca n't smooth it . |
| 6 | When bottoms itch , fingers scratch , and the microscopic eggs get scraped up and caught under the nails . |
| 7 | " Duke 's a lot better — 'is eyes and nose 'ave dried up and he 's eatin' like a 'oss ! " |
| 8 | I 've travelled up and down the country in the past few months , I 've spoken to union branches , I 've spoken to regional councils , regional committees , party meetings , general committees , regional conferences , and they all said the same . |
| 9 | but the Principal of the Technical Institute at Lowestoft was quite a character , a Mrs , a Miss G C and I remember it was the day after the erm , the bombing and the building was pretty well devastated and er Miss rung up and said , she 'd got an idea she said erm how about hiring a bus , a double-decker bus , I could have my classes in the bus and erm |
| 10 | I 've met so many people who 've come up and been introduced and just looked at me and gone , ‘ No , that 's the wrong guy … |
| 11 | That was all very well for the adolescent mankind , but in order to evolve , we have to realise we 've grown up and it 's time to leave home . |
| 12 | ‘ We had n't got children then and now they 've grown up and left home , ’ said David Coleman . |
| 13 | some dinner , we 've cleaned up and Bernard 's turned up , have you done any work yet ? |
| 14 | I said I , even I 've got up and got children up and off to school . |
| 15 | I 've woken up and found myself shouting and woke my , wake woke myself up I wake myself up . |
| 16 | I crawled down these stairs forty-eight years ago and I 've walked up and down them ever since , mostly in me bare feet , and I 've never got splinters . ’ |
| 17 | I 've had people , I 've , I 've driven up and it 's in the pouring rain , and you 've people just , they hoard round your car as you drive up . |
| 18 | Course it , by the time you , you 've got , you 've cashed up and everything |
| 19 | Apathy is a state of mind in which we have given up and no longer exercise control over our lives . |
| 20 | Looking at the audience , you may find that only those in the first five rows are alert and interested — the next five rows are straining forward , probably frowning , while the people in the back of the hall have given up and are doing their best to hide the fact that they are nodding off . |
| 21 | The seasoned rockers and cabaret bores at the local pub would appreciate the fact they have travelled up and down the country , playing every decrepit club and hovel on the way . |
| 22 | Halcyon days indeed but now the trio have broken up and McWilliams after another brief spell in England is back searching around for mounts . |
| 23 | The woods have come up and are standing round |
| 24 | My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all . |
| 25 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 26 | First , because it is evident that many of the problems which the Authority identified in 1985 when it established PNP were centred as much on professional attitudes as professional expertise — attitudes to children , to curriculum , to teaching methods , to parents , to ethnic minority groups , to gender issues — and indeed we have picked up and reported the resilience of many of the attitudes which the Authority sought to change . |
| 27 | Over the past six months or so you appear to have taken a leaf out of the Aquarian book and aired your grievances in such a manner that you now face the possibility of a complete break from the past , which in turn would alter so much you have built up and established over the years . |
| 28 | But , over the last hundred years , acres of ‘ accumulated land ’ have built up and it is now a good trek from station to sea . |
| 29 | Erm he then goes on to talk about erm eliminating banditry erm wh which basically erm where the peasant associations are powerful enough erm , you know , where the people rise up bandi bandits do n't exist because the people have risen up and you know are , are , are strong enough because they 've got swords , because they 've got spears , they 've joined together to , to get rid of the bandits . |
| 30 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |