Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] up the [noun] " 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 | I just brought up the files . |
| 5 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |
| 9 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 10 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She often rang up the producer and had a go at him and made him swear never to do anything like that again . |
| 13 | She even tarted up the buckle with sequins and pinned feathers in her battered hat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We soon gave up the hunt . |
| 16 | I know I was sadder than at the end of most commissions when we finally broke up the team in the refreshment room of Waterloo Station after we had left the ship in Southampton . |
| 17 | To Howard 's stubborn insistence that the Nez Perce move immediately to the reservation , Toohoolhoolzote answered : ‘ The earth is part of our body , and we never gave up the earth ’ . |
| 18 | He was appalled at their habits , saying they just covered up the dirt by placing new rushes over the old , thus covering the dirt and filth which was caused by animals wandering in and out of the houses . |
| 19 | They also smashed up the peasants ' illicit vodka stills . |
| 20 | These were manned by guards whose only access to the towers was by way of a single rope which they had to climb in a gymnastic fashion ; they then pulled up the rope and remained in the towers for the rest of the shift . |
| 21 | Viewers were therefore happy with a mixed diet , rather as though , in a public library , they sometimes picked up The Times , sometimes the Daily Mail , sometimes the Sun . |
| 22 | They never blew up the houses . |
| 23 | Then he slowly held up the object he had carried from the car — the object he had found in the gas station . |
| 24 | It effectively conjured up the mixture of religion , fighting prowess and romanticism which the Legion held so dear . |
| 25 | As Amiss placed the tray on the table beside Glastonbury 's bed , he quickly sized up the room . |
| 26 | She watched as he quickly sized up the situation and then took command . |
| 27 | It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’ |
| 28 | It also thought up the idea of converting public debt into more or less permanent debt at fixed interest , the system known as funding . |
| 29 | It also set up the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) under the Department of Employment . |
| 30 | It also opened up the economy to foreign imports in order to increase competition and break up entrenched monopolies [ see pp. 37528 ; 38002 ] . |