Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture .
2 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 .
3 I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns .
4 With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court .
5 By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself .
6 I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder .
7 I hastened up the big pitch , finding time in the rush to note its splendid position , with awesome exposure at the overhang .
8 I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company .
9 When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone
10 and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in .
11 Now I came up the hard way , same as you .
12 Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ?
13 For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney .
14 The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out .
15 In company with an English artist , I climbed up the steep hill-side for many successive weeks to paint the Needle Rock .
16 I screwed up the brown bag and flipped it behind one of the disco 's speakers .
17 And I said when I walked up the other day
18 I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again .
19 ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’
20 But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me .
21 I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier .
22 I started up the cold stone steps to the gallery .
23 As none of the guests spoke Spanish ‘ I rang up the British Consul and asked for his help and he provided it .
24 Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’
25 Accordingly I looked up the various symptoms and cases of several diseases .
26 I looked up the authentic sources ; the Comte de Horne turned out not to be an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; the marriage had been consummated and he had died of indigestion .
27 I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting .
28 I looked up the original advertisement .
29 I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly .
30 I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they !
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