Example sentences of "up [conj] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually Linda gave it up and admitted that Marilyn Duxbody was not present but added , with overtones of hysteria , that she expected her any minute . |
| 2 | Mrs Johnson said ‘ No ! ’ indignantly , and Mrs Stych woke up and checked that the girl had her name down correctly , too . |
| 3 | Chrissie looked up and saw that Jack was wearing his jacket . |
| 4 | One very hot morning , when she was about nine years old , she woke up and saw that instead of Kamala there was a different Indian servant by her bed . |
| 5 | Alexei looked up and saw that Kadan was laughing openly . |
| 6 | In confusion again , Louisa looked up and saw that the light was performing wondrously now across the lake . |
| 7 | You were here when I left , and then when I was passing I looked up and saw that your desk light was still on . |
| 8 | She looked up and saw that he was standing over her . |
| 9 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 10 | She looked up and saw that the lights had changed to green and as the car behind her sounded its horn she let out the clutch too quickly and the car lurched forward . |
| 11 | The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one . |
| 12 | It 's about time that you grew up and realised that I can not possibly be dancing attendance on you every five minutes . ’ |
| 13 | But anyway I flared up and said that sort of remark was what we were supposed to be fighting the war about and I went for him . |
| 14 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 15 | Yet he then stood up and said that he would be making a statement in the valleys tomorrow . |
| 16 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 17 | The Monday evening they phone me up and said that I was to attend another meeting on Tuesday which I believe were the twenty second to which they said , We 've thought about it and we 've decided not to continue your employment . |
| 18 | At the beginning of this week a girl phoned up and said that erm the chap he normally deals with is away |
| 19 | and she rang up and said that she wanted to go and would I go with her ? |
| 20 | The most constructive move was when Linda Bellos stood up and announced that she thought that the group was a complete waste of time unless it had power , and to have power it would have to be a Council Committee with the right to interfere in all other committees . |
| 21 | If we want to rescue the captives from the clutches of the Enemy , we must first wake up and realise that we are ourselves leading captive lives . |
| 22 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 23 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 24 | At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel . |
| 25 | We cover them up and assume that when someone takes their socks off there will be a nasty smell . |
| 26 | You know what you want a do , get some bags and bag that stuff up and sell that on the side of the road fifty p a bag . |
| 27 | Nobody stands up and says that we should n't be in the business at all , we should get rid of all of them , so all the argument about how many . |
| 28 | Well we were up there one time er at the Lothian region and we to be up and tell that this was imposing higher things on , higher prices on both the bus buses , because they were raising the bus fares at the same time , and they were increasing the lunch club . |
| 29 | Unless Opposition Members are prepared to stand up and pledge that they will meet the costs of every private home , no matter how high and heavy , our proposals for 1993 will overtake most of their objections , and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to respond to the debate . |
| 30 | It was interesting to listen to the comments after the game from the Radio 5 reporter who said that we 'd had enough chances to last us ‘ till Christmas , maybe it 'll make a few people sit up and recognise that we have a team capable of winning something this season . |