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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions .
2	‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen .
3	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 .
4	Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home .
5	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 .
6	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 .
7	I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits !
8	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 .
9	‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’
10	And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school .
11	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 .
12	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 .
13	I expect I woke up at the wrong time .
14	On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world .
15	I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head .
16	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 .
17	Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother .
18	After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage .
19	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 .
20	And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me .
21	I put up with the small pricking claws .
22	She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat .
23	I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens .
24	I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread .
25	I sidle up to the older cop .
26	If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home .
27	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 .
28	On holiday I teamed up with the nicest boy I 've ever met — but everyone says it 's just a holiday romance .
29	‘ I square up onto a prepared board which for the larger paintings is medium density fibreboard , or MDF , half an inch thick which I have primed on both sides .
30	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 .