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 . |