Example sentences of "up [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Nicer was travelling really well all the way and quickened up immediately I asked her , ’ he added .
2 Erm mm , I do n't know whether there 's any way round it but that 's sort of the set up that they gave us when we started and I guess I 'll have to sort of conform to that , but it
3 He said when Mr McKay 's sick note was sent in it was not picked up that it had anything to do with the accident .
4 She 's so grown up that she shouted herself hoarse through a bloody pantomime not two hours ago .
5 but like somebody else that were in , erm , the , the bloody pressure were up so they kept them in cos of that
6 Nobody owned up so he ordered us all to fetch our kit downstairs and to spread it out in a line on the wet grass , while he went along inspecting our underpants and spare trousers .
7 Ken chatted Belinda up so she said she would n't come round any more , or so Brenda reported .
8 she started playing , she just playing up cos she banged her head at Tracy 's .
9 Erm and she 's had seven youngsters and she 's brought them up and she a , on her own she 's had to bring them up cos he left her for another , another woman and erm she had the seven and she 's worked and fought hard cos she would n't ask for a darn thing and er they 're , they 're great those kids , they are , they 're a credit to her , you know , but it 's taken it out of her , she 's
10 Sorry that , sorry he had n't got wrapped my present up cos he thought I 'd .
11 And you see Lyndsey just ready to jump up cos he pinched her bottom , Alan .
12 I put it up cos you said you was cold .
13 I did n't wake you up cos I thought you 'd want a lie in
14 I did bring it up and no-one knew what it was .
15 I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago !
16 Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time .
17 He , he found out cos he went for , to , for a check up and they took his blood pressure .
18 Was n't it did n't you ring them up and they said we have exams on or something ?
19 The buil the I 've rung them up and they said they 'd do it .
20 I cleared that and fixed the vice up and they said I could do that and I used the and that in their place and er then they had to quit the premises completely , did n't they ?
21 Well they , er nowhere , we did n't get them from anywhere we just used to think them up and everyone thought we were potty did n't they ?
22 Jamie 's mother was still up and she made us some tea .
23 My mother and I brought her up and she brought herself this low .
24 His eyes came up and she saw his jaw tense before the shutters came down and blanked off his thoughts .
25 Terry 's eyebrows went up and she felt herself blushing furiously .
26 I phoned her up and she said they 'd started decorating lifting the tiles off on the kitchen wall .
27 Then we got her up and she said I 'm going to be sick so I said do n't worry about it .
28 Her head came up and she looked him in the eye .
29 Reid picked her up and she put her face into the hollow of his shoulder , both arms fast about his neck .
30 I sat up and she withdrew her hand .
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