Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You 'd kill me if I blew up the school ? |
| 5 | Until I plucked up the courage to go out by myself . |
| 6 | He did n't move until I picked up the poker . |
| 7 | Yeah we did it last year cos I broke up the day before last year all of mine still at school that day . |
| 8 | Cos I picked up the Chester to Wrexham one instead of the Snowdonia one . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I the car I had before I gave up the company car was a Mercedes Sports S L |
| 12 | I try to see Oreste , or used to before I gave up the torture , but all I see is a baby , fat and dimpled … ’ |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I picked up the ball I did n't see the crowd , just that basket . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 19 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 20 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |
| 21 | ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain . |
| 22 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 23 | As I picked up the knife from the rubble by the table I was waking . |
| 24 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |