Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] i [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 2 | He was just the bloke in the crowd what came over when I drew up . ’ |
| 3 | So much so , that I missed my stop when it finally came round and I ended up stranded in a place called Parliament Hill Fields , where you ca n't get a bus or a tube anywhere except back to the BBC . |
| 4 | ‘ It was so late when we finished yesterday that I queued up for 20 minutes for a takeaway hamburger , ’ he said . |
| 5 | to smithereens but it went off and I woke up |
| 6 | I did n't know if Jim had bolted it when he went to work cos he went out before I got up . |
| 7 | Reality was more drab , I thought ruefully when I woke up . |
| 8 | It began with a dream I had just before I got up . |
| 9 | But she did not forget ‘ sitting on me grandad 's rocking chair combing his hair and I can always remember him sat there and me stood up behind him : I 'd comb his hair for hours and he just sat there and let me . ’ |
| 10 | Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray . |