Example sentences of "i [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
2 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
3 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
4 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |
5 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
6 | Accordingly I looked up the various symptoms and cases of several diseases . |
7 | I looked up the authentic sources ; the Comte de Horne turned out not to be an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; the marriage had been consummated and he had died of indigestion . |
8 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
9 | No no i if it was if it was the likes of a say for instance , and I owned the book , it was my black book , and I ran up a hundred pounds on it . |
10 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
11 | Thus at my ease , I ate my tea and then I washed up the dirty crocks . |
12 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
13 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
14 | Phil disappeared for twenty-four hours and had me ringing up the local police station . |