Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 2 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 3 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 4 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 6 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 7 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 8 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 9 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 10 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
| 11 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 12 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 13 | Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road . |
| 14 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |
| 15 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 16 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 17 | Obviously there has to be ‘ give and take ’ on both sides ; for example , I would not expect to be guaranteed a space for the cycle if I turned up without a reservation . |
| 18 | If , if I walked up to a policeman in the street and gave him a little shove , the chances are he would arrest me , unless it was done in a totally friendly way . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing happened and as I like to race every weekend I signed up for a meeting in France on June 13 ’ , he said . |
| 20 | I finished up with a hand on her breast and my face within inches of hers . |
| 21 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 22 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 23 | I tied up in a cove west of here , just beyond the headland . ’ |
| 24 | I struggled up into a sitting position , my back resting against a chair . |
| 25 | So I went up into a tree and I stayed there all night . |
| 26 | I went up for a weekend . |
| 27 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 28 | I grew up as a child with a longing to hunt big game , and from 1930 to 1940 I took every opportunity to do so ; for this I have no regrets . |
| 29 | I grew up with a thing about alcohol — I think that 's got a lot to do with why I preferred a line of coke rather than a drink . |
| 30 | I grew up on a farm . ’ |