Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 2 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 3 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 4 | In one of the Belfast inner-city communities , I built up a strong personal relationship with a very poor family . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew . |
| 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 drew up a form with these headings and time was calibrated in fifteen minute interval boxes which , by the use of a marking code , could also show five minute intervals . |
| 9 | I fixed up an interview with him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I woke up a couple of hours later . |
| 12 | ‘ Steve and I teamed up a while back . |
| 13 | Now I had the hang of it , I racked up a handful of top to bottoms with plenty of vertical . |
| 14 | I turned up a couple of minutes early , found the door into the suite ajar and the sitting-room in darkness . |
| 15 | As I dug up a bronze Roman belt-stud , I realised that the site was a mixture of historical periods . |
| 16 | I walked up a small flight of steps to the red-tiled side colonnade . |
| 17 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 18 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |
| 19 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 20 | I blame the fact that a crow chose to hover below me as I scrambled up a tricky bit of path , made more perilous by loose shifting gravel . |
| 21 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 22 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
| 23 | ‘ So tell me about the twins , ’ I said , not because I was interested , but because I wanted the senator to talk while I dreamed up a strategy to turn down his request . |
| 24 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
| 25 | One year , after I notched up a particularly impressive tally of flying time , our club created a new annual award called ‘ Peel of the Year ’ — convinced there would only ever be one recipient . |
| 26 | We were — ’ I thought up a good lie quickly ; they 're the best ones ' — remembering all the times we had when we were students . |
| 27 | I kept up a close correspondence with my parents , partly because I knew that they missed me , and partly from natural inclination and affection . |
| 28 | As we staggered up the path like a couple of drunks , I kept up a desperate , bright flow of conversation , to mask the slowness of our steps . |
| 29 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ I grew up a United fan , ’ said Little . |