Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 2 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 3 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 4 | I just brought up the files . |
| 5 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 6 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 7 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 8 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 10 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |
| 11 | These new sweeping powers opened the door to planned redevelopment on an extensive scale , an important forerunner to the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , which effectively set up the post-war statutory planning system . |
| 12 | Elections to the Nationalrat ( lower house of the federal parliament ) on Oct. 20 left the four largest parties , which together made up the governing coalition , controlling 147 of the 200 seats ( previously 159 ) ; the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP/PRD ) lost seven seats and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP/PDC ) lost five . |
| 13 | The Bishop , who only took up the post last march , was advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a rest from his official duties . |
| 14 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 15 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 16 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 17 | However , such was A Smooth One 's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths . |
| 18 | From nowhere a swarm of fish appeared who promptly gobbled up the pieces . |
| 19 | It can be argued the flames have been fanned in part by attitude displayed by Milne 's hooking rival , Brian Moore , who once summed up the England approach by saying : ‘ Nobody likes us and we do n't care . ’ |
| 20 | The University had by now hired a professional in the form of one Ira Magaziner , a business strategy consultant who also picked up the ‘ yellow peril ’ theme by telling the congressional enquiry : ‘ As I speak to you now it is midnight in Japan . |
| 21 | LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly gave up the game this year after long-lasting viral problems , unexpectedly reclaimed the British national title at Newcastle yesterday by beating Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting only 43 minutes . |
| 22 | She often rang up the producer and had a go at him and made him swear never to do anything like that again . |
| 23 | The very phrase ‘ the Ulster people ’ refers to those who originally set up the true faith in Ireland and colonized the land accordingly . |
| 24 | His predecessor as leader of China 's billion people , Mao Zedong , may have been the maker of many of those revolutions , but Mr Deng was the one who often cleaned up the debris and put China back on its feet . |
| 25 | She even tarted up the buckle with sequins and pinned feathers in her battered hat . |
| 26 | In despair , one day , of finding a well-fitting winter coat , she hastily counted up the amount of land around Tollemarche which her husband had bought up and decided he was worth at least a Persian lamb coat . |
| 27 | As it there could be other victims out there who never got up the courage to come forward |
| 28 | We soon gave up the hunt . |
| 29 | I know I was sadder than at the end of most commissions when we finally broke up the team in the refreshment room of Waterloo Station after we had left the ship in Southampton . |
| 30 | To Howard 's stubborn insistence that the Nez Perce move immediately to the reservation , Toohoolhoolzote answered : ‘ The earth is part of our body , and we never gave up the earth ’ . |