Example sentences of "[vb past] i up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 2 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 3 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |
| 4 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 5 | ‘ Shook me up a bit , that yesterday , ’ he said unexpectedly . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's what I mean , ’ she replied , and , since a lot of his aggressiveness seemed to have faded , she felt able to confess , ‘ It — er — shook me up a bit . ’ |
| 7 | It shook me up the way the split was done for the 1990 US Open . |
| 8 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 9 | That cheered me up a bit . |
| 10 | Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year . |
| 11 | They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others . |
| 12 | ‘ That slowed me up a little bit . |
| 13 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 14 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 15 | I had murder with [ my GP ] ‘ cos , when I went , I was in a bad way and me mam took me up the doctor 's and he just said : ‘ I wo n't give you methadone . |
| 16 | He immediately took me up the tower , and — stepping out onto the balcony — I saw Oxford for the first time . |
| 17 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 18 | Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand . |