Example sentences of "i [vb base] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Twice a week I meet up with a group of other young mothers for a baby afternoon and — ’ |
2 | " I read up about a lot of them , Kate . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | If I get up out a chair it 's murder . |
6 | I get up after a bit and stick the stuff back in my pockets and start walking the way I came in . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
9 | I wake up of a morning and wonder what 's happened . |
10 | I decide to play it safe , so I tackle up with a ¼oz bullet stopped only 1½ inches from the number 4 hook . |
11 | When I go to bed I go up with a cig . |
12 | While I go up for a bath you can take stock of the supplies I brought . ’ |
13 | no I do n't think we 'll have a pussy cat for the foreseeable future , not shut up , I say it 's different if they can go out , sharpen their claws on a bit of bark or , unless I end up with a goldfish |