Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 2 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 3 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 4 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 5 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 6 | Halfway through my wash , I happened to glance up an notice one particularly well-hung lad studying my privates with a look of some amusement . |
| 7 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 8 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 9 | I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done . |
| 10 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |
| 11 | Hardly any of them replied and Chris , Nick and I decided to follow up the letters with phone calls . |
| 12 | If this topic was to be systematically explored I needed to build up a series of case studies of the appointment procedures associated with women teachers . |
| 13 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 14 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 15 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 16 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 17 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |
| 18 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 19 | Even without your help I 'd find my family , ’ she said in a low tone , ‘ and it would n't matter if I had to look up every Corosini in the phone book and knock on a hundred doors . ’ |
| 20 | and like I thought , I had to make up an excuse why I went out ! |
| 21 | I had to knock up the girl in the Post Office to find out where you lived and — here I am . |
| 22 | I had hoped that his would also be the case with the Emperor Peckoltia because as funds permitted I hoped to build up the numbers from two to four . |
| 23 | Erm , I , I wanted to pick up the point Mrs said , I , I do n't think this will necessarily this will be one of those allowances which people will er , claim on a regular basis . |
| 24 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |