Example sentences of "i [verb] up the [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 So I made up the rest and everyone liked it .
2 A couple of grey and white winter-plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on .
3 I pick up the bike and return it to the shed .
4 I pick up the gun and pocket it .
5 I pick up the paper and think about my father 's Social Security card sitting on my desk at home .
6 I pick up the cards and deal a circle for Clock Patience .
7 It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike .
8 Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there !
9 I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’
10 I found a lens in an old box and I used , I got another two lenses , and I fitted them together in an a tube , I had no tubing but there was an old bicycle at the house and I cut up the frame and put one lens at the one end of the frame and the seat pillar , I used the seat pillar for focusing .
11 One man who 's going to stay upstairs has the head of the wardrobe , you go tro I go trotting downstairs you see , and then I climb up the ladder And the ladder remember is over the edge of the sill .
12 Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal .
13 Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it .
14 I hung up the phone and wondered who else to call .
15 I hung up the coat and sat down .
16 It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time .
17 I collected up the pipes and made my way through the trees in the direction of NO. 3 Commando .
18 I scrambled up the ridge and there he lay dead , a dozen yards away .
19 I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way , marching up and down the church hall .
20 Marie smokes a fag while I brush up the hair and stick it in the bin .
21 so I rang up the place and said I would like to go are you having another ?
22 Next morning I cleaned up the vomit and got myself ready for school but I still had a nasty taste in my mouth and I was hot and achey .
23 I cleaned up the spill and walked down to the corner shop with my grocery list and three ten-bob notes to pay off last week 's ‘ strap ’ .
24 In the car I rolled up the windows and screamed all the way to the Sawtelle Veteran 's Hospital in Los Angeles where we were filming .
25 I looked up the window and no , no Martine there
26 I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United .
27 I picks up the phone and dialled a special number for the fraud squad .
28 I put in me bag when I go up the school and I had the little microphone hanging out .
29 and go and I tack up the horse and I get on the horse and everything and I do n't mean to say
30 Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray .
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