Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 2 | I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp . |
| 3 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 4 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 5 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 6 | I was quite stunned , because in the beginning I was struggling with it — all those regions around top A — and in the end , in Resurrection , I got up to a D above that , without going into falsetto , which was quite a little crusade for me . |
| 7 | Collecting my thoughts I baited up with a fresh squid and cast back out to the same spot , bobbin on the needle and it was back to the bedchair . |
| 8 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 9 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 10 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 11 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 12 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 13 | After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage . |
| 14 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 15 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 16 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 18 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 19 | I came up with a very simple answer to this problem and hope it will help others . |
| 20 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
| 21 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 22 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 23 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 24 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 25 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 26 | Twice a week I meet up with a group of other young mothers for a baby afternoon and — ’ |
| 27 | I give up after an hour of civilisational water-treading , hit Store and slope off to bed . |
| 28 | Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road . |
| 29 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 30 | I teamed up with a well known Devon journalist Phil Day , then on the Express & Echo , on an unofficial freelance basis . |