Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 3 | I zipped up the flaps , not daring to show my anger . |
| 4 | I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do . |
| 5 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 6 | I got home , I phoned up the police , and they say , ‘ Oh , no , we do n't know anything about any road blocks . ’ |
| 7 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
| 8 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 9 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 10 | I collected up the pipes and made my way through the trees in the direction of NO. 3 Commando . |
| 11 | In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work . |
| 12 | I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way , marching up and down the church hall . |
| 13 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 14 | With the summer certain to be dominated ( again ) by sequels ( Legal Weapon 3 , Batman Returns , Alien³ ; , Honey I Blew Up The Kids ) , Hollywood pundits are keeping busy predicting this season 's sleeper hits . |
| 15 | In the car I rolled up the windows and screamed all the way to the Sawtelle Veteran 's Hospital in Los Angeles where we were filming . |
| 16 | Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray . |
| 17 | I went up the shops and changed a pound . |
| 18 | I went up the barns last night . |
| 19 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 20 | The day looked bright but cold ; I laced up the Docs and went for a walk in the hills behind Gallanach . |
| 21 | I wrote up the notes , made myself some scrambled eggs , then decided to walk over to the post office to see if my brother had telephoned last night with any message . |
| 22 | I picked up the keys before he could change his mind . |
| 23 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 24 | Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was . |
| 25 | I picked up the pieces myself . |
| 26 | At half-past twelve on the next day , 24 December , I picked up the shafts of the wheelbarrow and pushed off towards Kano on those first , torturous , thirteen miles . |
| 27 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 28 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
| 29 | If by one careless word now I backed up the rumours Aline was bound to be spreading at night , by tomorrow morning Tom Lofthouse , a chatty lad , would have it all round the Doctors ' House . |
| 30 | It was after nine-thirty when we finished , because I remember that Mrs Reynolds had gone home and I washed up the cups myself . ’ |