Example sentences of "up but it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you .
2 He wanted to cheer Constance up but it had the opposite effect .
3 Well , I threw mine up but it fell back down .
4 A deadline was set up but it has come and gone and we no have no alternative but to reclaim the shares and place them back on the market .
5 Blanche was right to insist that these leads were followed up but it did not look as if they were going to take them anywhere .
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