Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yea , though I run down the valleys , I am Towed up the hills . |
| 2 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
| 3 | I 'm breaking up the band anyway . |
| 4 | You know , I 'm bringing up the child the best I can , she has plenty of love I love her very much ! |
| 5 | I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm soaking up the wisdom , ’ Oscar replied . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm goin' up the market , I 'll walk along wiv yer , ’ Florrie said , straightening the wide lapel of her shabby coat . |
| 8 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 9 | I 'm going up the garage anyway , alright ? |
| 10 | Er no we had some larger other income erm I 'm turning up the detail as we speak . |
| 11 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 12 | I were weighing up the value of the frame |
| 13 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 14 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 15 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 17 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |
| 18 | No , I was walking up the ramps and it was ripped out of my hand actually . |
| 19 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 20 | I borrowed fifty P off her the oth , I was going up the school , and I only had four fifty for the I needed fifty P but I did n't have enough change like . |
| 21 | I believe I had the same two horses in that wagon ; and I was coming up the Bungay road past Mr Charlie Skinner 's , and the yardman let them cows out to water , d'ye see , like they allus do every morning after they had milking done . |
| 22 | But I was beading up the Dale , climbing steadily with the engine pulling against the rising ground , then quite suddenly the fog thinned to a shimmering silvery mist and was gone . |
| 23 | How long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 24 | So how long you been going up the Rainbow Centre ? |
| 25 | While this survey is an invaluable tool when you are weighing up the pros and cons of each lender , it provides no guarantee that the lenders who have performed well will continue to do so . |
| 26 | LIE BACK AND THINK OF … well , certainly not England when you 're soaking up the sun in St Tropez . |
| 27 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 28 | Thus , when you 're setting up the mouse , for instance , if you 've got MOUSE.COM loaded , Presentations senses it and uses its MOUSE.COM interface . |
| 29 | When you 're drawing up the timetable right at the beginning there is no reason why you can not fix your planning meeting dates , and stick pretty closely to them . |
| 30 | Cos you 're filling up the weeder bin and I want well anyway , we we 've got to get sorted out compost for it . |