Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dixie and I are dressed up for the Island . |
| 2 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 3 | By nightfall I am fed up with the search and determined to leave tomorrow for at least one day on Drangajökull . |
| 4 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 5 | I am fed up with the power of the normally aspirated diesel engine in my ‘ 84 Ninety . |
| 6 | I AM fed up with the media blasting Kenya 's tourist industry . |
| 7 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 9 | Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm stopping up in the wood . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm sticking up for the little bless him . |
| 12 | 2 A habitual collocation of two or more words whose combined meaning is not deducible from a knowledge of its component parts and of their grammatical relations to each other : He 's a real pain in the neck , and I 'm fed up to the teeth with the mess he 's landed us in . |
| 13 | I live in a one-bedroomed flat with very little cupboard space and I 'm fed up with the piles of clothes and shoes I trip over all the time . |
| 14 | I left home when I was 16 , I 've travelled the world and I 'm fed up with the fun side of life . |
| 15 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted . |
| 16 | I 'm tied up at the hospital the weekend after . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm tied up at the hospital for a while each day , but we could be together most of the time . |
| 18 | I 'm going up to the top floor . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going up to the attics . ’ |
| 20 | Oh cos I 'm going up to the doctors as you know . |
| 21 | Well I 'll , I 'm going up to the vet so I 'll leave it running when we 're in the vet . |
| 22 | I 'm going up in the bedroom next . |
| 23 | Look , sergeant , when I 'm driving a four-wheeler , I 'm perched up at the front . |
| 24 | Tell him to join the society which I 'm starting up after the programme . |
| 25 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 26 | My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith . |
| 27 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 28 | At eighteen , I was called up for the Army and I was three years there . |
| 29 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 30 | I was fed up with the European promoters who seemed obsessed by the American sprinters . |