Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I kept up the act , I opened the door and said his name in a quiet voice and hobbled weakly across the cellar and up the steps . |
| 2 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 3 | but you got to have been out of work six months , so I said well I 've been out of work six months , so she , I 've got that to do tomorrow , so I get up the firm this Spinny Hill , Northampton , that 's an adult education centre where you can go and learn the skills of your trade , but she said that might not start until September |
| 4 | always nought , and you just , so I line up the way that is , where am I ? |
| 5 | So I pedalled up the Via San Pietro . |
| 6 | so I rang up the place and said I would like to go are you having another ? |
| 7 | So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet . |
| 8 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
| 9 | So I wrapped up the conversation as rudely as someone on Newsnight trying to silence a politician , just as he dealt me a social body blow . |
| 10 | So I picked up the thing with an empty bottle and put it in the , on the kitchen . |
| 11 | I I have n't contacted only from what who er Granville said so I picked up the communion the straight away and then I could n't and she 's coming on the or that Sunday the first |
| 12 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
| 13 | After giving your letter to my ‘ bonne ’ yesterday I gave up the fight and retired in good order to bed , where I am still . |
| 14 | If by one careless word now I backed up the rumours Aline was bound to be spreading at night , by tomorrow morning Tom Lofthouse , a chatty lad , would have it all round the Doctors ' House . |
| 15 | Why ca n't I pick up the phone and say , Come on , darling ? |
| 16 | And then me picking up the keys living here and taking it down the road ! |
| 17 | Fortunately I brought up the poison ; but I still carry the effects of it . |
| 18 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 19 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
| 20 | Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’ |
| 21 | One man who 's going to stay upstairs has the head of the wardrobe , you go tro I go trotting downstairs you see , and then I climb up the ladder And the ladder remember is over the edge of the sill . |
| 22 | And then I goes up the shute . |
| 23 | Then I plucked up the courage to start moving around on my own and began walking down a path when the gentleman in grey asked people to stand aside , and I stepped well back . |
| 24 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 25 | Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was . |
| 26 | Then I picked up the lamp torch and held it above my head . |
| 27 | Then I picked up the Nescafe tin and prised the lid off . |
| 28 | Then I climbed up the rope myself . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’ |