Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell you how I brought myself up on Wells , Huxley and Shaw ; how I prefer George Eliot and even Thackeray to Dickens ; how I like Orwell , Hardy and Housman , and dislike the Auden-Spender-Isherwood crew ( preaching socialism as a sideshoot of homosexual law reform ) ; how I 'm saving Virginia Woolf for when I 'm dead . |
| 2 | So I went to meet her without my make-up on and demonstrated how I made myself up . |
| 3 | So would you mind describing how you got it up there again cos I thought it was quite a good story . |
| 4 | That 's how we picked it up . ’ |
| 5 | Amazing how we screwed it up . |
| 6 | How they puffed themselves up to outstrip others in their pleasure-giving powers , how they boomed when they protested they 'd avenge assaults on her innocence by others . |
| 7 | I did n't know how he got it up , it 's , it 's only thin |
| 8 | That was when I wound it up on a carriageway . |
| 9 | It was only when I rang her up to chase up what had happened to the she says , oh dear I 've sent it to the wrong one . |
| 10 | He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it . |
| 11 | I was never given the chance to write Stephen a letter explaining why I gave him up for when he is older or anything . |
| 12 | That 's why she phoned you up . |
| 13 | er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit |
| 14 | I do n't know where she picked them up . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Very close to where we picked you up . ’ |
| 16 | He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … . |
| 17 | I want to see your room … the one where they locked you up . ’ |
| 18 | It all happened years ago , ca n't understand why they brought them up again now . |
| 19 | Presumably , he knew what he intended when he set it up ! |
| 20 | Carlo brought her flowers each day when he picked her up from her hotel , often adding other gifts : a silk scarf , chocolate truffles , a pair of sunglasses after she had mislaid her own . |
| 21 | The last time I saw Jonathan was Thursday evening when he picked me up in the car and we went for a drive . |
| 22 | Casabona admitted he forced a woman lodger in the house to go to a bedroom where he tied her up with adhesive tape . |
| 23 | And the location of where he dug it up is on every twenty-fifth-century map . |