Example sentences of "[vb pp] up when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Society must be very mixed up when so many terminally ill people want to die but are denied the chance while others think it is morally wrong for this child to be born . |
| 2 | Yeah , I suppose I was thinking , I , I always get mixed up when you say psychoanalysis |
| 3 | My ears had certainly pricked up when Sally mentioned Mike Martinez . |
| 4 | erm My ears pricked up when Mr Waterhouse did in fact say , I though he said that it was n't necessarily help in monetary terms , but some of these people might be willing to help in kind , or in sort of helping as people with some voluntary organisations , and I think , if that was what he meant , I think there again that might be very useful , because voluntary organisations are always looking for people to help . |
| 5 | The full expression of flight can really be conjured up when drawing the gliders and soarers . |
| 6 | Lapsing into silence , she sipped her now unwanted coffee and only looked up when he came to sit opposite her , a large plate of bacon and eggs before him . |
| 7 | She had not looked up when Nick came into the garden . |
| 8 | If the policy was successful , its effects would be picked up when the next analysis was undertaken , and projected into the future . |
| 9 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 10 | It is flown there as the alternative to the massive O-dako or rectangular Edo kites , largely because its three-spar construction enables it to be rolled up when the spine is removed . |
| 11 | It was n't torn up when the other ones went to school . |
| 12 | Typically , the time to name is speeded up when the picture is preceded by itself , or if it is preceded by a picture of a related object . |
| 13 | She made a brilliant debut in This Girl 's Army and followed up with two light romances ; the publicity department declared that she was grown up when she charmed Alfred Hitchcock and won an Oscar nomination for Reasonable Doubt , a sophisticated courtroom melodrama . |
| 14 | children were grown up when they were eight and nine because they were working |
| 15 | ‘ You can release all the mental strain that you 've built up when psyching your self up for a marathon , ’ she says . |
| 16 | It is very probable that these windows were built up when the Old School was converted into the Stockport Assembly Rooms . |
| 17 | There was just the erm Broomfield Staffield Tanys Dell erm Glebelands and that was the all the area that was built up when we came here . |
| 18 | NATO military forces would be smaller but more mobile and flexible , and with the capability to be built up when necessary . |
| 19 | I have always turned up when people have asked me to put children in their shows . |
| 20 | You are sufficiently warmed up when your pulse rate is significantly faster than when taken at rest . |
| 21 | It is easy to calculate your personal maximum heartrate by deducting your age from 220 , and you are sufficiently warmed up when your heartrate is between 60% and 90% of your maximum . |
| 22 | They rose 10 per cent on 2 August , and also moved up when the UN imposed sanctions , when Iraq refused the UN 's call for withdrawal and when the UN set the 15 january deadline . |
| 23 | His head had jerked up when I leapt to my feet — now it sank back on to his hollow chest . |
| 24 | Some years ago great controversy was stirred up when two astrophysicists published a book , based largely on Chinese research , suggesting that solar fluctuations triggered geophysical disturbances here on Earth . |
| 25 | Look at the amount of resistance stirred up when it was first suggested that operations should be carried out in aseptic conditions . |
| 26 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |
| 27 | We went from house to house , passing White Memorial Hospital , whose waiting room had been shot up when one gang went to kill the wounded members of another . |
| 28 | General causal models can not be drawn up when interactions exist between the variables ; the only solution is to draw up a separate causal model for each of the groups for whom the effects of the variables are different . |
| 29 | For others , the feeling of being trapped may arise from an early blueprint drawn up when they were literally helpless and unable to do anything about an intolerable situation or to get out of it on their own . |
| 30 | Petitions were sometimes drawn up when a need was felt to comment on official club policy . |