Example sentences of "[vb past] up [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of this week a girl phoned up and said that erm the chap he normally deals with is away |
| 2 | One very hot morning , when she was about nine years old , she woke up and saw that instead of Kamala there was a different Indian servant by her bed . |
| 3 | The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one . |
| 4 | Mrs Johnson said ‘ No ! ’ indignantly , and Mrs Stych woke up and checked that the girl had her name down correctly , too . |
| 5 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |
| 6 | Joanna , 25 , whom Brian befriended during training sessions at the centre , later turned up and confessed that her disappearance was a hoax . |
| 7 | But anyway I flared up and said that sort of remark was what we were supposed to be fighting the war about and I went for him . |
| 8 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 9 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 10 | and she rang up and said that she wanted to go and would I go with her ? |
| 11 | It 's about time that you grew up and realised that I can not possibly be dancing attendance on you every five minutes . ’ |
| 12 | Chrissie looked up and saw that Jack was wearing his jacket . |
| 13 | Alexei looked up and saw that Kadan was laughing openly . |
| 14 | In confusion again , Louisa looked up and saw that the light was performing wondrously now across the lake . |
| 15 | You were here when I left , and then when I was passing I looked up and saw that your desk light was still on . |
| 16 | She looked up and saw that he was standing over her . |
| 17 | She looked up and saw that the lights had changed to green and as the car behind her sounded its horn she let out the clutch too quickly and the car lurched forward . |
| 18 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 19 | The most constructive move was when Linda Bellos stood up and announced that she thought that the group was a complete waste of time unless it had power , and to have power it would have to be a Council Committee with the right to interfere in all other committees . |
| 20 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 21 | Yet he then stood up and said that he would be making a statement in the valleys tomorrow . |