Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num ord] [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first went up , I had to sign a paper to say it was my responsibility if anything happened . |
| 2 | ‘ When I first came up from Balclutha , Hilda said what I needed first was a good wife but Jan here said what I needed first was a couple of good horses . ’ |
| 3 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 4 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 5 | I 'm not taking the pictures for the reason I first picked up a camera . |
| 6 | I honestly had n't read anything as interesting since I first picked up a novel by Thomas Hardy . ’ |
| 7 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 8 | When I first set up home on my own I had so many bits of ill-assorted furniture that various friends and relatives had given me , that it was difficult to ever imagine having a beautiful home . |
| 9 | and when I first moved up there I thought oh yeah , what 's happening , yeah . |
| 10 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |
| 11 | So after that visit to Bristol , when I went to my little chapel on that bald knoll , I first called up the white healing ball and rolled it around every part of my anatomy , then I called up my archers and let them shine the beams of their torches down onto the spot in my lung . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's two years since I last lined up on a grid , ’ Vitor said , ‘ and since then I 've refused to give interviews and avoided all contact with the media . |
| 13 | W w when you first er when you first went up onto the picket lines erm h how m many of you w were there then ? |
| 14 | Did it hurt when you first got up ? |
| 15 | Then Joanna asked thoughtfully , ‘ Sophie , when you first made up your mind to set up on your own , did you contemplate doing any large-animal work at all ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You first tucked up your skirts between your legs and you danced backwards and forwards , round and about and over a lighted candlestick . |
| 17 | So what is the interest in Olive Edis now ? j Simply that the small Norfolk town where she first set up in studio portraiture ( with her sister ) is just discovering the significance of the local photographer , Mrs Galsworthy from South Street , aka Olive Edis . |
| 18 | One or two , we used to we had one or two when we first came up here . |
| 19 | Re you know , when we first got up it was glorious . |
| 20 | When they first met up on a ‘ Carry On ’ set a couple of years before no one knew how strong that love would be . |
| 21 | you know they , when they first went up there to live , they er , had quite a problem , and the trouble was , was , the two boys they were born in Australia you see and they came here , and one was four and the other |
| 22 | Cos they could n't hear brurgh , baa brurgh , baa baa baa , when they first started up , see . |
| 23 | She says when they first moved up there was an old stone sink and a cold water tap ; no hot water and since then the council has put in a new sink with hot and cold running water . |
| 24 | And I ca n't remember how it first came up , but we had this argument . |
| 25 | But he had resolved , when he first took up his great task , that , if God spared his life , before many years he would cause the boy that drove the plough to know more of the Scripture than the ignorant parish clergy of his time . |
| 26 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 27 | Mr Gray said he first took up his complaint about missing mail in December 1990 and was told by the post office in Darlington that it would be given urgent attention . |
| 28 | When he first struck up a friendship with Joanna , he could never have suspected it would one day put him firmly in the frame in a potential murder investigation . |
| 29 | Highbury boss Graham said afterwards : ‘ He first picked up the injury against Nottingham Forest , then aggravated it with England and he 's aggravated it again . |
| 30 | He was aware of this and in principle disliked it , attempting when he first set up in private practice , to resist it , but he had not been able to . |