Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] up [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was then that I made up my mind that r would never leave England , ’ declares Lotte Bray ( Lowenstein ) . |
| 2 | So I closed all those books and it was then that I opened up my eyes and looked around me and said , ‘ Now I 'm reading ’ . ’ |
| 3 | ( But it was n't my fault that someone blew up his sky-bar while trying to get at me . |
| 4 | Suddenly Isabel was no longer floating , she was falling instead , the sensation so swift and unexpected that she flung up her hands to save herself , and found them clinging to the source of the heat above her . |
| 5 | end of the island as polar bears ; indeed , the sight of one was so surprising that she picked up her skirts and , with the younger children around her , fled towards the safety of her mother 's kitchen . |
| 6 | The pluses are that you speed up your cash flow , and the majority of your sales administration and collection work is done for you . |
| 7 | It was in the mid-1960s that you set up your first gallery . |
| 8 | The trouble with you , my friend , Coffin thought , looking at him , is that you make up your mind first and get the evidence afterwards . |
| 9 | After training sessions , keep any literature or handouts together with the forms so that you build up your own references to guide you . |
| 10 | We could all have thought of suitable answers to that one , but the rigid framework in which we lived dictated that we button up our lips , bite our tongues and suffer in silence . |
| 11 | As against the chaos , or alternatively the uncritical archaism , of such moral thought , he recommends that we tidy up our ethical language so that the words have a firm utilitarian sense . |
| 12 | In a clear allusion to North Korea , it was stated that " political dialogue with other countries in no way means that we give up our principled positions and priorities or forgo the interests of third parties " . |
| 13 | It is recommended that their training stretches over a period of about 15 months from the time that they take up their post . |
| 14 | The Splash Principle — the dark markings on this grey tree frog spread across its legs in such a way that they break up its shape . |
| 15 | Men need , in effect , to say to each other , ‘ I authorize and give up my right of governing myself , to this man , or to this assembly of men , on this condition , that they give up their right to him and authorize all his actions in like manner . ’ |
| 16 | AT&T Co is happy to have the Baby Bells enter the long-distance market in the US on condition that they give up their local monopoly : AT&T also will lobby to eliminate remaining regulation of long-distance . |
| 17 | That they marked up your bought a load of messages , so many |
| 18 | when I went like that it went up you know . |
| 19 | Aye , and such a one ’ — she was shaking her head — ‘ who 'd talk a hind leg off a donkey , and with such politeness that it gets up your nose and under your skin and on your nerves . ’ |
| 20 | On the rare occasion that it comes up she kind of laughs it off and says well it was n't really a marriage . |
| 21 | The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket . |
| 22 | In his memoirs , ‘ My Web of Time ’ , the Reverend R H Gallagher notes that he gave up his car in 1939 on the outbreak of war and never had another afterwards . |
| 23 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 24 | So far as Richard was concerned if his father was eventually going to insist that he give up his conquests then it was at least possible that he would get better terms if he approached Philip directly and offered to abide by the judgement of the French court . |
| 25 | No did he say no did you say that he phoned up anyone else ? |