Example sentences of "i [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 2 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 3 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 4 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 5 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 6 | I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal . |
| 7 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 8 | I hastened up the big pitch , finding time in the rush to note its splendid position , with awesome exposure at the overhang . |
| 9 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 10 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 11 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 12 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 13 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 14 | Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ? |
| 15 | Concentrating on maintaining a foothold on rocks worn smooth by winter torrents , I put up a startled grouse that exploded into flight . |
| 16 | I 'm over 40 , so how can I firm up a sagging bustline ? |
| 17 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 18 | The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out . |
| 19 | In company with an English artist , I climbed up the steep hill-side for many successive weeks to paint the Needle Rock . |
| 20 | I screwed up the brown bag and flipped it behind one of the disco 's speakers . |
| 21 | I set up a great screaming to attract his attention . |
| 22 | So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe . |
| 23 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 24 | I walked up a small flight of steps to the red-tiled side colonnade . |
| 25 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 26 | I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’ |
| 28 | But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me . |
| 29 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 30 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |