Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 4 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 5 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 8 | I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one . |
| 9 | So prolific was my perspiration I steamed up the viewfinder , and I imagine my acquaintance now possesses a fine set of prints featuring the edge of my thumb and some clouds . |
| 10 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I zipped up the flaps , not daring to show my anger . |
| 13 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 14 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 15 | I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do . |
| 16 | I phoned up the bank this morning . |
| 17 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 18 | Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there ! |
| 19 | I got home , I phoned up the police , and they say , ‘ Oh , no , we do n't know anything about any road blocks . ’ |
| 20 | So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet . |
| 21 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 22 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
| 23 | I drew up the list , you 've got it written in there . |
| 24 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 25 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 26 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 27 | I hastened up the big pitch , finding time in the rush to note its splendid position , with awesome exposure at the overhang . |
| 28 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 29 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 30 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |