Example sentences of "i [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubled up , retching and heaving , feeling my guts contract like a balling fist inside me ; involuntary , alive , like a woman must feel with a kicking child . |
| 2 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 3 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 4 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 5 | I gazed up under my eyebrows . |
| 6 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 7 | You must have spilt more juice than I wiped up . |
| 8 | Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back |
| 9 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 10 | On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there . |
| 11 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 12 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 13 | Aided by nostalgia , I made up my mind , there and then , to return to Nigeria on foot . |
| 14 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 15 | I made up |
| 16 | It was a great disappointment but I made up my mind there and then that it would be different next term . |
| 17 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 18 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 19 | ‘ It was then that I made up my mind that r would never leave England , ’ declares Lotte Bray ( Lowenstein ) . |
| 20 | ‘ All they know is stuff I made up . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I made up my mind to say yes if he did , ’ she said . |
| 22 | ‘ I made up my mind about that long before we had five goals stuck past us at Oldham on Saturday . |
| 23 | Quite early , I made up my mind that all I wanted to be was a top flight boxer , to follow Jack Johnson in my own way and become the first black British heavyweight champion . |
| 24 | So , I made up my mind from then : ‘ right , I 'll have to stay with the black guys 'cause I am black . ’ |
| 25 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 26 | I made up my mind then that next time I had a baby I would love it . |
| 27 | I never used to be able to read good before I went into prison : I used to get into the book and think , ‘ What 's that word ? ’ and then cut the word down to size until I made up what it was . |
| 28 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 29 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 30 | But I made up my mind not to move until the battle was over . |