Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 2 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 3 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 4 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 5 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 6 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 7 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 8 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 9 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 10 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 11 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 12 | On holiday I teamed up with the nicest boy I 've ever met — but everyone says it 's just a holiday romance . |
| 13 | Then I climbed up into the warm sunshine and the dry valley of Gordale Beck . |
| 14 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 15 | I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden . |
| 16 | Soon afterwards , I stocked up with the sweet-tasting water of an oasis , the banks of which were encrusted with salts and shaded by palm-trees . |
| 17 | I stared up into the kind-eyed , sallow face of Catherine of Aragon . |
| 18 | I stared up at the grey sky and the black ravens which circled above the battlements like the souls of men condemned to wander the earth forever . |
| 19 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 20 | Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm |
| 21 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 22 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 23 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 24 | I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti . |
| 25 | I reached up to the nearest branch which seemed likely to hold my weight . |
| 26 | I went up to the tall , dark girl . |
| 27 | So I went up to the general manager Mr and he he sa told me certainly I can go . |
| 28 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 29 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 30 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |