Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But the the people I met made up for that .
2 until I got fixed up with a private job
3 that people were leaving the country. , my friend wrote to my niece in One House and asked her if I could live with her until I got fixed up in a home .
4 Then , when I got fed up with that , I 'd go downstairs and make a racket on the old upright piano my nan had lent us .
5 ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter .
6 So I got fed up with this .
7 ‘ Then I actually left Girlschool in 1989 because I got fed up with their attitude , although they 've changed now — so they tell me !
8 I got fed up with people offering to buy me out so they could open another damn casino , ’ Aggie says .
9 It was Desmond who put me on the game — that lasted for a few months , then I got fed up with it .
10 If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really .
11 Nah , I got fed up with that . ’
12 I must admit that I got fed up with pursuing it and I think it 's like banging your head against a brick wall in the end .
13 But er I did two or three hundred , four hundred , five hundred a day and I got fed up on it and I said to the gaffers one day , if you do n't change me from this job I 'm leaving , so they says oh we do n't want you to do that , best filer we 've had .
14 I got fed up of all that daft nonsense .
15 " I got fed up of seeing people 1 knew getting dressed up and going to pubs or discos , because I could n't and I did n't know what the latest was — and round here that matters a lot , " said a nineteen-year-old Wigan woman with a child .
16 I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit .
17 you 'll you 'll be very comfortable with it and I can tell you now that 's one of the things that I got tied up with so
18 Gradually , from the toe , that was July , and I got paralysed up to my hips and er I had no relations or anybody there , but Toc H were very good .
19 So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive .
20 I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’
21 I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business .
22 I when I went , you know when I went down , do you remember I told you that I got caught up with him ?
23 ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’
24 ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’
25 ‘ I meant to get some food on my way home , but I got held up at college , ’ she explained , examining various other articles in the fridge with distaste .
26 I got held up at the last minute . ’
27 I 'm sorry I was late getting but I got held up by another lesson .
28 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
29 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
30 It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’
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