Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 2 | I feel you summed up the points we discussed very fairly and produced two worthwhile and coherent papers . |
| 3 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 4 | Now I filed my nail this morning cos it was catching , I did n't file it long enough obviously , but I filed it with that erm you know you opened up the |
| 5 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 6 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 7 | She hoped he picked up the phone quickly . |
| 8 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 9 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 10 | they reckon I climbed up the outs the outside of a fucking multi-storey car park for two flights . |
| 11 | When I come back from bingo he said I went up the shop up the chip shop he said and got some fish and chips for my tea . |