Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethel found me doubled up . |
| 2 | Everyone got up on stage for the final encore and launched themselves into a shambolic but passionate rendering of ‘ Wild Thing ’ which involved a bit of hot action in the shape of LOX from Kingmaker snogging an alarmed PATRICK from the Kitchens during the chorus . |
| 3 | One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time . |
| 4 | ‘ Some of them got up my nose a bit … right sods the lot of them … there 's a collection of them , the Technical Drawing staff . |
| 5 | When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise . |
| 6 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , three-quarters of RAF churches have robed choirs , half of them made up entirely of adults and averaging eight to ten members . |
| 8 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 9 | While arguments regarding biologically-based sexual differences applied to all women , the Victorian scientists who developed them built up their theories on the basis of assumptions regarding the behaviour of women in their own class , and , as Elizabeth Fee has pointed out , there was therefore an essential circularity in their reasoning . |
| 10 | ‘ Or , ’ he demanded harshly , ‘ do you have someone other than me lined up to pay your mortgage ? ’ |
| 11 | Everyone cracked up and Jerry turned red but it was the highlight of the evening . |
| 12 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , someone got up and said I could n't propose throwing redcoats out of Belfast because there were n't any nowadays . |
| 14 | Someone got up and put on a Pink Floyd album . |
| 15 | I ask you and someone got up and like turned the |
| 16 | I doubled up , retching and heaving , feeling my guts contract like a balling fist inside me ; involuntary , alive , like a woman must feel with a kicking child . |
| 17 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 18 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 19 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 20 | I gazed up under my eyebrows . |
| 21 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 22 | You must have spilt more juice than I wiped up . |
| 23 | Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back |
| 24 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 25 | On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there . |
| 26 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 27 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 28 | Aided by nostalgia , I made up my mind , there and then , to return to Nigeria on foot . |
| 29 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 30 | I made up |