Example sentences of "i [verb] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 2 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 3 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 4 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 5 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 6 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 7 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 8 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 9 | Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley |
| 10 | I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 13 | I turned up the collar of my fake biker 's jacket and walked off . |
| 14 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 15 | ‘ There was a time recently when a friend of mine said she was in love and could I look up the man in question 's chart and tell her the truth ? |
| 16 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 17 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 18 | We were called by EMI , RCA , Arista , Warner Brothers and I hung up the phone on all of them . |
| 19 | Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill . |
| 20 | After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine . |
| 21 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 22 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 23 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 24 | In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work . |
| 25 | I roll up the sleeves of my crisp white shirt , because old thought is dusty stuff . |
| 26 | I scrambled up the side-wall of the canyon and peeped over . |
| 27 | Yeah we did it last year cos I broke up the day before last year all of mine still at school that day . |
| 28 | ‘ I bound up the wheat in little bunches . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I crushed up the cockroach in my clothes and practically ripped my blouse off , there in open sunlight . |