Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] up in " in BNC.

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1 or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign .
2 All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture .
3 That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’
4 There are no colours — it kinda bugs me out , I just feel so f—ing glad , so incredibly lucky , that I grew up in America .
5 Not content with claiming that I ended up in jail , many people have been led to believe that I murdered my wife , who , I can state categorically , is still living in Selly Oak , Birmingham .
6 allow and they reckon that soft ones are better suited too sports because , because of the great action they 're harder to , to knock out , whereas soft ones er , have better other qualities , I 've got this little fucking book , book that I picked up in the Boots in Farnborough the other day yes , its quite interesting .
7 But this did not satisfy me either , so I ended up in Eritrea , having passed through Keren , Agordat , and Asmara .
8 Once I dressed up in a big , black shag wig , really tacky .
9 ‘ Debbie was born there and we still have a place there , but not the same one that she grew up in .
10 The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed .
11 Mrs J. was a dominant person , so much so that she ended up in hospital suffering from malnutrition , as she had refused to eat .
12 When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea .
13 So you grew up in that house alone with your aunt , ’ Matilda said .
14 But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of .
15 ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair .
16 More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’
17 He is indeed ‘ the most political of all our poets ’ and this is hardly surprising when we remember that he grew up in an age of Revolution .
18 Magpies strut from flowerbed to flowerbed , greedily devouring the grubs that he turned up in yesterday 's gardening .
19 ‘ He and I grew up in the same town .
20 Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 .
21 Something 's trying to get in ! ’ and I rocketed up in the air and out of the water .
22 And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’
23 For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat .
24 ‘ Colin Harvey bought Mike Newell for the start of my second season and I ended up in the reserves , with all the publicity and pressure that brought .
25 And I ended up in the erm my ended my career as the in , I was in charge of the stone , stone masonry office working for the funeral manager .
26 I remember you taking me there to lunch when I was small and I threw up in the lift . ’
27 ‘ Not until I woke up in hospital . ’
28 And then she fell down , not knowing anything more until she woke up in Ma 's big bed .
29 She remembered nothing more until she woke up in the ambulance .
30 And you grew up in Hong Kong ? ’ she persisted , refusing to be deterred .
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