Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] up [art] " 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 | I blow out so hard that I mist up the windscreen . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied tersely , ‘ I 'll make sure that I draw up a balance sheet next time . |
| 4 | I asked Alan to fish the first drift , in order to settle down , and towards the end he suggested that I put up the dap . |
| 5 | You want that I turn up the sound ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 8 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 9 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 10 | The lump is not ready to answer , so I turn up the pressure : ‘ He ai n't gon na say nothing . |
| 11 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 12 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 13 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 14 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 15 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 16 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 17 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 18 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
| 19 | and go and I tack up the horse and I get on the horse and everything and I do n't mean to say |
| 20 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
| 21 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
| 22 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 23 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 24 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 25 | In the spring of 1940 John Avison and I rounded up a group of like-minded radio people with the object of renting a large house as far away as possible from downtown Vancouver . |
| 26 | I found a lens in an old box and I used , I got another two lenses , and I fitted them together in an a tube , I had no tubing but there was an old bicycle at the house and I cut up the frame and put one lens at the one end of the frame and the seat pillar , I used the seat pillar for focusing . |
| 27 | After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine . |
| 28 | And I walked up the village this morning the birds were singing their songs |
| 29 | A couple of grey and white winter-plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on . |
| 30 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |