Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 2 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 6 | In one of the Belfast inner-city communities , I built up a strong personal relationship with a very poor family . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I hastened up the big pitch , finding time in the rush to note its splendid position , with awesome exposure at the overhang . |
| 10 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 11 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 12 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 13 | Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ? |
| 14 | Concentrating on maintaining a foothold on rocks worn smooth by winter torrents , I put up a startled grouse that exploded into flight . |
| 15 | I 'm over 40 , so how can I firm up a sagging bustline ? |
| 16 | The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out . |
| 17 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 18 | I run up the open wooden steps to the office to ask the price of a self-catering suite . |
| 19 | In company with an English artist , I climbed up the steep hill-side for many successive weeks to paint the Needle Rock . |
| 20 | I screwed up the brown bag and flipped it behind one of the disco 's speakers . |
| 21 | I set up a great screaming to attract his attention . |
| 22 | So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe . |
| 23 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 24 | I walked up a small flight of steps to the red-tiled side colonnade . |
| 25 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 26 | I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again . |
| 27 | But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me . |
| 28 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I started up the cold stone steps to the gallery . |