Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard .
2 I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’
3 And all the time I kept up the visualization .
4 I wanted to do it , but every time I picked up the Bic , a job came up .
5 Nevertheless , in that brief space of time I turned up the flame .
6 The second time she picked up the lure and pulled up clumsily on my fist .
7 I would say it would n't matter what time you went up the park there 'd be somebody there .
8 If every time you picked up the phone and made contact with somebody and I gave you a pound , would you accept that as a deal ?
9 It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway .
10 I noted the time they woke up every day , the places they fed , the food they ate , the time of year they made their nests , and so on .
11 Is n't it time they gave up the game and settled into cosy , post-stude domesticity ?
12 At the same time it set up the Seiji Togo Memorial Museum , which now occupies the forty-second floor of the spectacular headquarters tower in Tokyo , and houses pictures by Chagall , Gauguin , Picasso , Renoir and Grandma Moses .
13 He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge .
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