Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] 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 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 4 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 5 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 9 | I put up with the small pricking claws . |
| 10 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
| 11 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | as I pant up towards the breathless heights . |
| 18 | I stared up into the kind-eyed , sallow face of Catherine of Aragon . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 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 | You hate me when I turn up in the sexy German motor , you hate me when I ca n't turn up at all . |
| 26 | I du n no what to do now so I go up to the big electric sign board and have a look at it . |
| 27 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 28 | I went up to the tall , dark girl . |
| 29 | So I went up to the general manager Mr and he he sa told me certainly I can go . |
| 30 | 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 . |