Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting . |
| 32 | I looked up the original advertisement . |
| 33 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 34 | We were — ’ I thought up a good lie quickly ; they 're the best ones ' — remembering all the times we had when we were students . |
| 35 | I kept up a close correspondence with my parents , partly because I knew that they missed me , and partly from natural inclination and affection . |
| 36 | ‘ I grew up a United fan , ’ said Little . |
| 37 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 38 | ‘ I took up a new hold at 500 feet over the pilot and was pleased to see the dinghy on the water , fully inflated , between the helicopter and the pilot — and upwind of him ! |
| 39 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 40 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
| 41 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 42 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 43 | I gave up a promising career in advertising in England and came back to Barbados with him . |
| 44 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
| 45 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 46 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 47 | I conjured up a vivid representation of the plushy murk in the Theatre Royal , I saw the shiny tip of the hypodermic gleaming against the dark fabric of The Fat Controller 's trouser leg . |
| 48 | ‘ I ca n't believe these ropes , ’ said Steve , as I cambered up the free end . |
| 49 | No no i if it was if it was the likes of a say for instance , and I owned the book , it was my black book , and I ran up a hundred pounds on it . |
| 50 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |
| 51 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 52 | I rustled up a friendly Australian to take a shot of Ted in action . |
| 53 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 54 | I picked up a dental chisel and resolved to sell my life dearly . |
| 55 | Recently , I picked up a young bird which one of my cats had caught ; I held it in my hands in the hope that it might survive . |
| 56 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 57 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 58 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 59 | ‘ The first time I picked up a 12 bore , it was bigger than me and the men all laughed . |
| 60 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |