Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the summer certain to be dominated ( again ) by sequels ( Legal Weapon 3 , Batman Returns , Alien³ ; , Honey I Blew Up The Kids ) , Hollywood pundits are keeping busy predicting this season 's sleeper hits . |
| 2 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |
| 3 | In the car I rolled up the windows and screamed all the way to the Sawtelle Veteran 's Hospital in Los Angeles where we were filming . |
| 4 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 5 | ‘ To answer both questions I dreamed up the character of a man who is 764 years old ; who is senile but with extraordinary flashes of intellectual brilliance . |
| 6 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 7 | The night I went up the bus was n't due to leave until 11 PM , so I left my luggage with the bus station and went for a meal . |
| 8 | In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work . |
| 9 | On impulse I picked up the phone and rang her , hoping I still had the right number . |
| 10 | Next morning I cleaned up the vomit and got myself ready for school but I still had a nasty taste in my mouth and I was hot and achey . |
| 11 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 12 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 13 | So prolific was my perspiration I steamed up the viewfinder , and I imagine my acquaintance now possesses a fine set of prints featuring the edge of my thumb and some clouds . |
| 14 | I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’ |
| 15 | And all the time I kept up the visualization . |
| 16 | I wanted to do it , but every time I picked up the Bic , a job came up . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , in that brief space of time I turned up the flame . |