Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , living up that end it 's not so bad is it ? |
| 2 | I know the poeple on Blackbird Leys are ganging up and doing it themselves , taking the law into their own hands , they 'll do it if there is n't anything done |
| 3 | ‘ He kept waking up and telling me silly things … |
| 4 | If you did n't bother turning up and reading it then that was no p |
| 5 | I 'd been hoping my daughter would be brought to see me at Holloway and was frightened of her turning up and finding me not there . |
| 6 | The " ladder " is in fact a stairway ( perhaps like that of the ziggurat ) , since angels are going up and down it ( compare Jesus ' words to Nathanael in John 1:51 ) . |
| 7 | Constanza was growing up and knew it . |
| 8 | ‘ No , they 're in a room behind the cinema , ’ he said , pulling up and showing me a light in a doorway , up some steps . |
| 9 | So with a little adding up and subtracting you will see that there were five children in the family and I came in the middle , being the third child . |
| 10 | He says he did think of whipping up and running them down , but it would have been useless , they could shoot far faster than we could drive at them . |
| 11 | This can take many forms , but the idea is that part of it is strapped around your backside ; this prevents the hook from riding up and allows you to take all the weight of the rig by sitting . |
| 12 | I believe that Stalin was paranoid about other people in the Soviet Union rising up and overthrowing him , so by bumping off Kirov and blaming on them , he effectively gave himself a licence to go out and kill all other them as revenge . |
| 13 | Erm do you have cases where the where the girls or same faces keep popping up or do you do you feel that once they 've been pulled in they it puts them off ? |
| 14 | It was Hallowe'en coming up that gave her the idea they 'd had lessons at school about ghosts , witches and Hallowe'en . |
| 15 | Indeed the only real drawback , if you can call it that , is that people are continually coming up and congratulating us on our victory over England . ’ |
| 16 | Westmacott then saw two ‘ red noses ’ coming up and thought they were from his own flight , as he called his pilots to rendezvous over Takali , going down through cloud to wait for them . |
| 17 | They kept bloody coming up and hitting you in the face . |
| 18 | As he tried , several times , to restart his car before giving up and pushing it on to the verge to await rescue , traffic on the M8 from Glasgow quickly built up until there was a three-mile tailback . |
| 19 | Then on the stairs , she turned to say to Xanthe , who was behind her , going more slowly , unfamiliar with the shallowness of the treads and their tight twist , unlike Miranda who 'd had weeks of running up and down them , ‘ But do n't let on to your pa . |
| 20 | In better days , however , it merely served to guarantee the privacy of the sovereigns and as a diversion for the Prince Imperial who enjoyed running up and down it when he came to play with his parents . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's pretty straightforward most of the time , but he will nip darned hard when you 're tacking up and mean it ! |
| 22 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 23 | She said the girl discussed with her mother what she would do if something similar happened to her , before clamming up and denying she was a victim . |
| 24 | ‘ For goodness ’ sakes , hurry up , ’ she exclaimed , standing up and folding her stole around her . |
| 25 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 26 | I mean , that 's like ringing up and saying it 's Jon really is n't it ? |