Example sentences of "i [verb] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp . |
| 2 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 3 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 4 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 5 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 7 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 8 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 9 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 10 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 11 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
| 12 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 13 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 14 | Twice a week I meet up with a group of other young mothers for a baby afternoon and — ’ |
| 15 | Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road . |
| 16 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |
| 17 | " I read up about a lot of them , Kate . |
| 18 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 19 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 20 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 21 | Obviously there has to be ‘ give and take ’ on both sides ; for example , I would not expect to be guaranteed a space for the cycle if I turned up without a reservation . |
| 22 | I stand up with a sigh , like any husband coming home from the boozer , and I head back to Rachel with whisky on my breath . |
| 23 | If , if I walked up to a policeman in the street and gave him a little shove , the chances are he would arrest me , unless it was done in a totally friendly way . |
| 24 | If I get up out a chair it 's murder . |
| 25 | I get up after a bit and stick the stuff back in my pockets and start walking the way I came in . |
| 26 | ‘ Nothing happened and as I like to race every weekend I signed up for a meeting in France on June 13 ’ , he said . |
| 27 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 28 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
| 29 | I wake up of a morning and wonder what 's happened . |
| 30 | I finished up with a hand on her breast and my face within inches of hers . |