Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 2 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 3 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 4 | I just brought up the files . |
| 5 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 6 | When I finally hang up the fedora and donate the trusty Smithsonian to the Smith and Wesson Institute , I 'm gon na have a whole floor-covering of codlings . |
| 7 | Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’ |
| 8 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 9 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 11 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |
| 12 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |