Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 2 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 3 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 4 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 5 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 6 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 7 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 8 | I hastened up the big pitch , finding time in the rush to note its splendid position , with awesome exposure at the overhang . |
| 9 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 10 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 11 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 12 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 13 | Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ? |
| 14 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 15 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 16 | The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out . |
| 17 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 18 | I run up the open wooden steps to the office to ask the price of a self-catering suite . |
| 19 | In company with an English artist , I climbed up the steep hill-side for many successive weeks to paint the Needle Rock . |
| 20 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 21 | I screwed up the brown bag and flipped it behind one of the disco 's speakers . |
| 22 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 23 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 24 | I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’ |
| 26 | But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me . |
| 27 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 28 | I started up the cold stone steps to the gallery . |
| 29 | As none of the guests spoke Spanish ‘ I rang up the British Consul and asked for his help and he provided it . |
| 30 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |