Example sentences of "up [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mop it up bring her in . |
| 2 | ‘ Bastards ! ’ he said loudly , and repeated the oath as he reached up to untie the string that held the body of the puppy . |
| 3 | Helen Guy of Castlemilk Housing Energy Action , set up to combat the high level of fuel debt in the area , described the anger and despair with which people had reacted to the decision to add VAT to their fuel bills . |
| 4 | Food poisoning will affect an increasing amount of people unless an independent body is set up to enforce food contamination laws . |
| 5 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
| 6 | In other words , carp baits have ceased to be merely baits : they are being catapulted in their thousands into every water in the UK to feed up carp that may never be caught . |
| 7 | We had this wine at lunch and we came up to snooze … . ’ |
| 8 | Genies and lamps , Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves , and Sinbad the Sailor all come out of that civilisation and end up singing Neighbours down at theatres across the land . |
| 9 | Pesci , a bungling burglar in the movie and its upcoming sequel , gave up singing for acting 15 years ago . |
| 10 | Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest . |
| 11 | Gray grew up singing in the gospel choir at the local church . |
| 12 | So she would have to she was to given up her career in acting , she may have to take a view and give up singing totally for a while . |
| 13 | When they stopped pulling my clothes off that 's when I packed up singing . |
| 14 | She felt as if she was falling and her hand came up to steady herself . |
| 15 | Sometimes I would wake up weeping with frustration and despair . |
| 16 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | I wonder why she is crying before breakfast , and whether she wakes up weeping many days . |
| 18 | Like swimmers coming up to breathe , they regularly ventilated themselves outside London , sometimes renting cottages , sometimes staying in hotels , and sometimes whirling recklessly through the Continent . |
| 19 | A DAD took his family out shopping — and ended up catching a jewel thief . |
| 20 | Then up got John Smith to unveil the Labour leadership 's new tactic . |
| 21 | She managed to contact him in Florida , as the clearing up got under way . |
| 22 | if one of the eldest wakes up got to go back to bed . |
| 23 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 24 | She 'll always look up Got a Pritt stick ? |
| 25 | Measured up got any quotes ? |
| 26 | The loudspeaker radio system he set up became a great success and became a model for others throughout Argentina . |
| 27 | I have to look at the matter more broadly , and consider also the effect of a valid assignment made before winding up became an imminent prospect . |
| 28 | And I thought yeah I know mate , you might of now but you bloody well had n't a year ago well I said well so I said before we even put the on the field once we 'd phoned him up asked . |
| 29 | That 's just about it for today — tomorrow 's another glittering showbiz Friday here on lunchtime and we 've got Wesley Snipes , Right Said Fred and Mary Chapin Carpenter lined up to dazzle and delight you . |
| 30 | simple games based , perhaps , on co-ordinates ( like Pirates — ITMA , 1972 ) or building up intersecting sets ; |