Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 2 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 3 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 4 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 5 | I just brought up the files . |
| 6 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 7 | When I finally hang up the fedora and donate the trusty Smithsonian to the Smith and Wesson Institute , I 'm gon na have a whole floor-covering of codlings . |
| 8 | Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’ |
| 9 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 10 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 12 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |
| 13 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |
| 14 | I mean , why have you suddenly brought up the subject of Elise ? ’ |
| 15 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 16 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 17 | draw round it , dot dot dot , draw even if you then sketch it without using a straight line , if you just join up the dots freehand , |
| 18 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Could you just hold up the bidding while my boys settle with the opposition ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 21 | ‘ With friends , you do n't introduce yourself , there 's no need to ring and say ‘ It 's Tessa here ’ , you just pick up the phone and wail : ‘ I threw up last night , ’ or ‘ I ca n't stand it , he has n't called . ’ |
| 22 | say if it was yourself and father who both were n't well , he would , if you just pick up the phone and say , I 'm running short can I have a b b and he , he brings it round , like you know , j j |
| 23 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 24 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 25 | You can find this setting by trial and error by getting someone to speak steadily into the microphone while you gradually bring up the mixer level from zero to the point at which the volume , as monitored on headphones , ceases to rise . |
| 26 | Why do n't you ever pick up the freebie papers ? |
| 27 | Battery lamps can be purchased for night use ( from angling or camping shops ) with elastic to tie around your forehead , to keep both hands free when you rapidly haul up the net . |
| 28 | She often rang up the producer and had a go at him and made him swear never to do anything like that again . |
| 29 | She even tarted up the buckle with sequins and pinned feathers in her battered hat . |
| 30 | In despair , one day , of finding a well-fitting winter coat , she hastily counted up the amount of land around Tollemarche which her husband had bought up and decided he was worth at least a Persian lamb coat . |