Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone starts to wind up the pace . |
| 2 | In the pauses , I tried totting up the words Vern had spoken since we 'd arrived . |
| 3 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 4 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 5 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 6 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 7 | . I I i i in a way I want to back up the point Mr has just just made . |
| 8 | But if I want to move up the ladder I 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I want to ride up the front with you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I want to walk up the other valley too , ’ said Betty . |
| 11 | On this last day I want to sum up the things we have discussed . |
| 12 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 13 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 14 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 15 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 16 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 17 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 18 | I remember picking up the film and making my way back to Derek 's , although even now the memory 's a little hazy , and then I started to feel light-headed and dizzy . |
| 19 | I remember walking up the fairway and saying to him , ‘ You 're not that good ! ’ |
| 20 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 21 | Hardly any of them replied and Chris , Nick and I decided to follow up the letters with phone calls . |
| 22 | I needed to call up the heroic days when Dennis was still around , and we were young and carefree , bonking our brains out while he shouted banalities from the foot of the stairs . |
| 23 | I , I use to go up the . |
| 24 | So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear … |
| 25 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 26 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 27 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 28 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 29 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 30 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |