Example sentences of "[indef pn] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll cook somethin' up from this end . |
| 2 | She 's going to ring someone up to find out more about it . ’ |
| 3 | Half a dozen white teenagers were beating someone up . |
| 4 | There 's an eight-tonne on its side — can you get someone up there as soon as possible ? ’ |
| 5 | He would make a casual remark , often to cheer someone up , just a joke really ; wait for the penny to drop ; relish the reaction ( it was always astonishment ) — and walk away . |
| 6 | ‘ When I left school I was nowhere , but someone up there put me in the situation I find myself in now . |
| 7 | He is not the type to go to the pub and just pick someone up . |
| 8 | So you did n't get any benefit from locking someone up — it was discouragement if anything . |
| 9 | Why did n't you lock someone up ? ’ |
| 10 | You had to know your Instruction Book very well , because if you locked someone up and they got away with it , next day in court , there was a chance that you might be deemed excessive in your law and of course then you were on your own . |
| 11 | You may have locked someone up and made a mistake . |
| 12 | Its procedures often seemed too specific to be worth the candle of locking someone up . |
| 13 | ‘ When you wake someone up , you very simply say , |
| 14 | DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names . |
| 15 | Someone up there must have wagered a few bob on them for another Grand Slam . |
| 16 | ‘ You found someone up there , ’ she said , seeing his face . |
| 17 | Her brothers were planning to blow someone up ! |
| 18 | Anthony was dead and her brothers were going to blow someone up . |
| 19 | And the self same people who shake their heads and utter these remarks are the ones who will be heading off to the Med or Florida on their holidays next year , doubtless piloted there by someone up front who began his or her career on a little grass strip flying those little aeroplanes that look so flimsy . |
| 20 | He stiffened as he recognized a man move upstairs with a distinctive , boneless saunter : he had better send someone up to check the backgammon room . |
| 21 | ‘ We accept , for example , that the chief executive could always ring someone up . |
| 22 | ‘ I feel like a giant 's yo-yo — as if there 's someone up there just dangling me on a string . |
| 23 | It was absolutely pouring down as though someone up top was emptying buckets . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd better go and tell someone up at the camp that she 's come round . ’ |
| 25 | It 's nice to think , you know , there 's someone up there , sitting in the cloud , watching over us and providing , as it were . |
| 26 | if we got ta wind someone up sort of like one of the girls fancies a bloke she 'll tell it to his face , but in back slang so he do n't know she 's saying they go er , what ? |
| 27 | He said he 's sending someone up there , when they 're gon na provide a series , it 's gon na be too late to make anyway . |
| 28 | Er well I got ta phone someone up . |
| 29 | Er , someone up and asked |
| 30 | The thought of all the ingenuity and hard Scottish toil spent on the line 's construction being deliberately discarded by a bunch of greedy , sly , ignorant English Conservatives in London that nobody up here voted for makes my rage barely containable . |