Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 2 | No matter how carefully I listened , and the faintest signals that I dug up , all my finds proved to be items of 17th century date . |
| 3 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |
| 4 | It is with great pleasure that I take up Mrs O'Neil 's call to arms on behalf of Martina . |
| 5 | We were called by EMI , RCA , Arista , Warner Brothers and I hung up the phone on all of them . |
| 6 | My brothers and I grew up with very different interests and aspirations and we were to lead very different lives . |
| 7 | and I was very moved by the photograph and I ended up writing a poem to this little girl , and indeed one thing I can say , perhaps with some pride , is that Doctor Barnardos know about this poem , and somehow who was writing a history Barnardo children actually asked to use it in her book . |
| 8 | There was an embarrassing moment when I thought he was walking over to me to begin the programme and I got up to greet him . |
| 9 | I asked him if he would be willing to meet some members of the House , if Lucy and I fixed up some small dinner parties after my resignation . |
| 10 | But ha I remember I was on my test and I pulled round er it was very , very busy and there were two rows of cars and I pulled up and I thought right there 's a gap down there and I want to go straight on and all these others were turning le turning right so I squeezed down through the gap and then I thought right I 'm gon na be here a little while shall I put it in neutral , blow no I wo n't . |
| 11 | My father carries me from the car and I glide up two flights of concrete steps , suspended in midair by anti-gravity . |
| 12 | ‘ Two years in the air force and I blew up . ’ |
| 13 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 14 | This is a horror movie a fucking horror movie this lunatic is making his own horror film and you ca n't even tell yourself Hell it 's only a story are n't the special effects good it is n't real because that 's exactly what it is and the gorilla man is explaining in that hideous high-pitched baby 's voice what he has in this bottle and in this syringe and I throw up halfway through but they pause the video for me . |
| 15 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 16 | It 's more comfortable if Herta lies on her side and I take up position behind her . |
| 17 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 18 | After dinner Millie and I wash up , which brings us to : |
| 19 | It was a great disappointment but I made up my mind there and then that it would be different next term . |
| 20 | which was quicker , took her down to the mission , she stayed in the car till I went up to the mission to get our money signed for our money and come out and er |
| 21 | I get told off by my girlfriend because I wake up in the morning and the first thing I say is , ‘ Flippin' heck , have you sent those newsletters off yet ? . ’ |
| 22 | Marie smokes a fag while I brush up the hair and stick it in the bin . |
| 23 | And then there were the the dose was reduced and then I had to come off them altogether and after twenty nine years of dieting unsuccessfully I gave up dieting and I have n't put on any weight since I gave up dieting ! |
| 24 | My date gets out of the car to go buy popcorn while I fix up the speaker . |
| 25 | The configuration of lights speed up , broaden , and throw different shadows into the car as I pull up a freeway ramp . |
| 26 | It was daylight when I woke up . |
| 27 | Alas , they had no high chairs for nine month old Daniel , and it was with a sinking heart that I picked up the menu , while trying to hold the baby and prevent toddler Michael from pulling off the tablecloth . |
| 28 | I would remind Ben that I put up To Bolt or Not To Be , a widely recognised 8b/c , in November 1986 ; that I have since climbed more than 20 routes of this level or more ; that I repeated the roof at Volx fairly easily in 1990 ; and that I have since put up two more 8cs — Huevos in 1991 and Macoumba Club recently at Orgon — in addition to Just Do It . |
| 29 | I was no good at rugby so I took up rowing . |
| 30 | Du n no yet , I really do n't know , erm well I only popped in Sundays , I 've been going to spend the week , er the other half and me ended up in Littlehampton and Arronale for the day . |