Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ABBERLEY : I gave up the title to you . |
| 32 | I gave up the idea of tea , but was able to make a washer in the afternoon with rubber from an abandoned tyre . |
| 33 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain . |
| 36 | Cos I picked up the Chester to Wrexham one instead of the Snowdonia one . |
| 37 | I picked up the bottle beside me and took another long swig . |
| 38 | For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk . |
| 39 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 40 | As I picked up the knife from the rubble by the table I was waking . |
| 41 | Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was . |
| 42 | So I picked up the thing with an empty bottle and put it in the , on the kitchen . |
| 43 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 44 | At half-past twelve on the next day , 24 December , I picked up the shafts of the wheelbarrow and pushed off towards Kano on those first , torturous , thirteen miles . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 47 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
| 48 | Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again . |
| 49 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 50 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 51 | The first thing to note is that a chase should be built up in exactly the way you built up the whole of your book . |
| 52 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 53 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 54 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 55 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |
| 56 | Turning round , she folded up the collar of her black T-shirt experimentally and , liking the effect , fastened a double row of pearls around it . |
| 57 | She scampered up the bank through the weeds to the footpath . |
| 58 | She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket . |
| 59 | From under the chair I watched as she scooped up the mess into a cloth , and dropped it in the bin . |
| 60 | In a conversation which she later recalled to friends Diana told him : ‘ You looked so sad when you walked up the aisle at the funeral . |