Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] them up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tights , very long in the leg , were quite a problem , hanging round her ankles in great folds however hard I tried to keep them up , and settling into the enormous-seeming bedroom slippers to make walking dangerous . |
| 2 | I tried to tie them up . ’ |
| 3 | And you sign them up or when I say sign them up they 're er an account is opened |
| 4 | I suggest wiring them up and trailing them overboard to thaw . |
| 5 | As she says : ‘ I want to bring them up with security , not to anticipate things because they will be disappointed . |
| 6 | Lisabeth and Fenella were waiting on the pavement outside the Spring Onion when I arrived to pick them up . |
| 7 | I like to cheer them up and have a laugh with them . |
| 8 | So , when I wanted to grow slightly tender plants in my none-too-mild Midlands garden , I decided to bring them up to be as tough as possible . |
| 9 | Well I suppose ringing them up and telling them how they 've been going , how they 're galloping , how they do n't gallop . |
| 10 | I went to pick them up at D'Amicos at eight . |
| 11 | I do shut them up at night because of the stoats and the foxes , but they put themselves to bed , I only have to shut the door . |
| 12 | I did hang them up matron said Mary Lou mildly , I know I did , then Mary Lou 's tennis racket sudden showed three broken strings , they were not frayed , but looked as if they 've been cut , Mary Lou was upset . |
| 13 | yorkshire pudding , I had to use them up did n't I , cos I do n't like eggs laid about , you know , I do n't like them being there a lot |
| 14 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 15 | I think they 're quite abrupt and rude whenever I 've phoned them up . |
| 16 | Be seeing a pigging card come now , now I 've split them up . |
| 17 | I 've pumped them up . ’ |
| 18 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 19 | Ah , I 've made them up into poster size . |
| 20 | Nearly fifty pounds ' worth , I 've added them up . |
| 21 | No it 's er it came today and it had its balance on its ticket and I 've rung them up and er |
| 22 | The buil the I 've rung them up and they said they 'd do it . |
| 23 | I 've put them up there . |
| 24 | Oh did leave them in there perhaps I 've put them up on the shelf . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've brought them up in the fear of the Lord . ’ |
| 26 | and my children who go to work now have grown up , I 've brought them up , |
| 27 | ‘ If you 're looking for your undies , I 've folded them up and put them on top of the TV for you . |
| 28 | I have to clean them up , I 'll have |
| 29 | But I like to think that I have kept them up to date . |
| 30 | I have to tear them up before my wife sees it . ’ |