Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 2 | The lump is not ready to answer , so I turn up the pressure : ‘ He ai n't gon na say nothing . |
| 3 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 4 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 5 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 6 | And tha that is one thing I 'm , I mean I 'm not I 'm not the best driver in the world , but that is one thing I do try not to do cos as you say no matter what the circumstances are , if I go up the back of somebody it is my fault . |
| 7 | Will these people notice if I turn up the sound ? ’ |
| 8 | You 'd kill me if I blew up the school ? |
| 9 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
| 10 | Until I plucked up the courage to go out by myself . |
| 11 | He did n't move until I picked up the poker . |
| 12 | Yeah we did it last year cos I broke up the day before last year all of mine still at school that day . |
| 13 | Cos I picked up the Chester to Wrexham one instead of the Snowdonia one . |
| 14 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 15 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
| 16 | My date gets out of the car to go buy popcorn while I fix up the speaker . |
| 17 | After going a couple of hundred yards over open ground , the road entered very thick forest , and here I made the men walk in front while I brought up the rear . |
| 18 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 19 | ‘ Now then — you can start to dry yourself with that towel , while I heat up the tongs . ’ |
| 20 | Marie smokes a fag while I brush up the hair and stick it in the bin . |
| 21 | Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it . |
| 22 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 23 | I the car I had before I gave up the company car was a Mercedes Sports S L |
| 24 | I try to see Oreste , or used to before I gave up the torture , but all I see is a baby , fat and dimpled … ’ |
| 25 | I put in me bag when I go up the school and I had the little microphone hanging out . |
| 26 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 27 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
| 28 | When I plucked up the courage to ask my mother about it she just burst into tears and I could not bring myself to question her again . |
| 29 | When I picked up the ball I did n't see the crowd , just that basket . ’ |
| 30 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |