Example sentences of "i [verb] up [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 2 | ( I woke up chilly in the morning . ) |
| 3 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 5 | And I grew up respectful of the strength of her inner soul , superior in my school learning but knowing here was something beyond knowledge . |
| 6 | ‘ I sat up all through the flight putting it together . |
| 7 | I picked up one of the cloths and helped her . |
| 8 | I picked up one of the old models for a good price , but the new style is still reasonable . |
| 9 | 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 . |