Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 3 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 4 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hardly any of them replied and Chris , Nick and I decided to follow up the letters with phone calls . |
| 7 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 10 | I had to knock up the girl in the Post Office to find out where you lived and — here I am . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |