Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness .
2 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
3 I gazed up at the building .
4 I gazed up under my eyebrows .
5 The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that .
6 The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director .
7 I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily .
8 In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau .
9 I tried I saw him one day on , I crept up in my and I took it out of the window and all I 've got is the .
10 I made a lot of mistakes but I owned up to them and was starting to play pretty well .
11 I beamed up at my future Uncle Richard , asked him to give my love to Margaret and Dickie , my regards to the General and Co. , and added my hope that he would have a good holiday .
12 I met up with Pat in a small room at the front of the house tucking into a breakfast of fried eggs and an obscure piece of meat that took up about half of his mess-tin .
13 Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home .
14 Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean .
15 just prior to Birkdale I met up with him to play against Gary player in a televised match at St Andrews .
16 I met up with these two on Glasgow station .
17 In the next week or so until I met up with him again I was suffused with wild imaginings .
18 ‘ There are two reasons why I wanted to be sure that I met up with you after school today . ’
19 By the way , I met up with John Collins the other day and he and I were signing your praises .
20 I met up with her two and three times , to see where we 're at .
21 ‘ On April 1 and I met up with once again to do the voice-over for our film at the BBC studios in Manchester .
22 reset and that 's how I met up with bleeding Tony he came to visit me meeting a friend , it 's only me he said oh go round and see this girl I know and she was related to my best mate , it 's a complicated story and we sort of went from there really
23 Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out .
24 I met up wi' Alfred Carter , ’ Ernest said .
25 I mean , I sold up around West Hill you said many a time , how we think that 's
26 At my first important debate , I paired up with five of the Tory buggers and then I turned up .
27 When I checked up on his progress I was startled to find that he had not only planted up the four pots but his red wellington boots as well , liberally watering both them and himself and then garnishing with sprigs of a semi-dormant fuchsia as a finishing touch .
28 ‘ You 're angry with me because I checked up on your background ? ’
29 I checked up on you when I could . ’
30 Helen was worse than me , I got up for Neighbours , I mean , she was really dead .
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