Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 2 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 5 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 6 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 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 | Well i it 's a lot to do with the , the how light it is , I always get up a lot more easily I think when it 's , it 's not dark . |
| 9 | Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’ |
| 10 | Just to be on the safe side I also set up a stick float and a bleak whip but I was hoping I would n't need them — so much for being positive . |
| 11 | I also set up a room for the program under review , so I can just click at the side of the screen and move to it . |
| 12 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But you know , what an awful Scotch thick-head I am , and that I never give up a thing , before I do not see the absolute impossibility . ’ |
| 17 | I recently set up a tank specifically to try to breed the attractive little Peacock Goby , Tateurndina ocelicauda . |
| 18 | I mean , why have you suddenly brought up the subject of Elise ? ’ |
| 19 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Could you just hold up the bidding while my boys settle with the opposition ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 24 | You do n't have to mix your colours , squeeze your tubes out , you just pick up a colour . |
| 25 | If you just pick up a sherd of pottery , okay , that really by itself ca n't tell you an awful lot . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 29 | ‘ So you just dreamt up a message ? |
| 30 | But she just gets up a bit quick . |