Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 3 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 4 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 5 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I turned up the collar of my fake biker 's jacket and walked off . |
| 8 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 9 | We were called by EMI , RCA , Arista , Warner Brothers and I hung up the phone on all of them . |
| 10 | Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill . |
| 11 | After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine . |
| 12 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 13 | In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work . |
| 14 | I scrambled up the side-wall of the canyon and peeped over . |
| 15 | Yeah we did it last year cos I broke up the day before last year all of mine still at school that day . |
| 16 | ‘ I bound up the wheat in little bunches . |
| 17 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 18 | I crushed up the cockroach in my clothes and practically ripped my blouse off , there in open sunlight . |
| 19 | In a misguided attempt to impress the veteran American producer , I brought up the name of Jaume Sisa : a songwriter I once met by chance in a bar in Barcelona , and a man whose work is considered obscure even in Catalonia . |
| 20 | I brought up the question of bans and proscriptions and Sinclair finally stated that no red flags or ‘ unauthorised ’ slogans will be permitted . |
| 21 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 22 | ‘ To answer both questions I dreamed up the character of a man who is 764 years old ; who is senile but with extraordinary flashes of intellectual brilliance . |
| 23 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 24 | I looked up the line of the torrent . |
| 25 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |
| 26 | When I come back from bingo he said I went up the shop up the chip shop he said and got some fish and chips for my tea . |
| 27 | ‘ So — I kept up the pretence of believing you were using drugs , hoping you 'd accept having me around all the time in a bid to prove your own innocence . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 29 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
| 30 | I took up the tin with the matches in it and lit the candles ; they burned yellowly and I knelt , clenching my fists and thinking . |