Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] 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 So I pedalled up the Via San Pietro .
4 so I rang up the place and said I would like to go are you having another ?
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 So I picked up the thing with an empty bottle and put it in the , on the kitchen .
9 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
10 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 .
11 After giving your letter to my ‘ bonne ’ yesterday I gave up the fight and retired in good order to bed , where I am still .
12 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 .
13 Fortunately I brought up the poison ; but I still carry the effects of it .
14 Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle .
15 At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar .
16 Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was .
20 Then I picked up the lamp torch and held it above my head .
21 Then I picked up the Nescafe tin and prised the lid off .
22 Then I climbed up the rope myself .
23 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 .
24 I never been round there I went up the other .
25 While I was there I climbed up the suspension cables to the top of the mainland tower and looked around .
26 ‘ This was where I took up the running , ’ Robert said .
27 Again I tore up the letter and did not reply .
28 Miserably I looked up the hymn .
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