Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean .
2 Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits !
6 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 .
7 And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school .
8 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 .
9 Collecting my thoughts I baited up with a fresh squid and cast back out to the same spot , bobbin on the needle and it was back to the bedchair .
10 I expect I woke up at the wrong time .
11 On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world .
12 I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head .
13 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 .
14 After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage .
15 I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things .
16 And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me .
17 Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest .
18 On holiday I teamed up with the nicest boy I 've ever met — but everyone says it 's just a holiday romance .
19 To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead .
20 Then I climbed up into the warm sunshine and the dry valley of Gordale Beck .
21 I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity .
22 I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden .
23 I just did , I finished up with an eight on one of those there .
24 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 .
25 I stared up into the kind-eyed , sallow face of Catherine of Aragon .
26 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 .
27 As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona .
28 Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm
29 I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings .
30 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 .
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