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 .
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