Example sentences of "i [vb base] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 2 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 3 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 4 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 5 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 6 | I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide . |
| 7 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 8 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 9 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 10 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 11 | I roll up the sleeves of my crisp white shirt , because old thought is dusty stuff . |
| 12 | See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’ |
| 13 | And tha that is one thing I 'm , I mean I 'm not I 'm not the best driver in the world , but that is one thing I do try not to do cos as you say no matter what the circumstances are , if I go up the back of somebody it is my fault . |
| 14 | I steam up the platform after him , knowing Des can block him the other side . |