Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 2 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 3 | I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one . |
| 4 | So prolific was my perspiration I steamed up the viewfinder , and I imagine my acquaintance now possesses a fine set of prints featuring the edge of my thumb and some clouds . |
| 5 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 6 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 7 | Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there ! |
| 8 | I phoned up the bank this morning . |
| 9 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 10 | I drew up the list , you 've got it written in there . |
| 11 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 12 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 13 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 14 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 15 | So I pedalled up the Via San Pietro . |
| 16 | A can of Tetleys Bitter never tasted better as Jim and I soaked up the sun burning its way through the Californian coastal mist . |
| 17 | Then I climbed up the rope myself . |
| 18 | While I was there I climbed up the suspension cables to the top of the mainland tower and looked around . |
| 19 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 20 | I climbed up the ladder . |
| 21 | I turned up the collar of my fake biker 's jacket and walked off . |
| 22 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , in that brief space of time I turned up the flame . |
| 24 | We were called by EMI , RCA , Arista , Warner Brothers and I hung up the phone on all of them . |
| 25 | I hung up the phone and wondered who else to call . |
| 26 | I hung up the coat and sat down . |
| 27 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 28 | And I walked up the village this morning the birds were singing their songs |
| 29 | Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill . |
| 30 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |