Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I sit up in bed and swing my legs to the floor .
2 My hair sticks to it when I sit up in bed .
3 I sit up in bed and switch the light on , shaken awake by pure embarrassment .
4 I booked up in advance of course .
5 He had me drugged and I … well , I woke up in bed with one of the girls .
6 I woke up in bed the next morning with a strange feeling that something was wrong …
7 I woke up in hospital here . ’
8 ‘ Not until I woke up in hospital . ’
9 when we got to the depot and eh , I came up in civvies , it was a light civvies suit , cos it what I had in India .
10 ‘ I said that this was not Shelley and I ganging up in competition against them : it was just two businesswomen trying to make more business .
11 I arrived up in Camden Town and asked in the tube station for directions to the shelter .
12 Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 .
13 My nocturnal escapades sometimes included visits to the school kitchens , where I ate bananas , leaving a mound of their skins conspicuously on one of the tables , and quantities of ice cream , which I scooped up in handfuls , defiling the common stock with the unhygienic touch of my individuality .
14 I finished up in Rome , home to so many of the works I lectured on , and on my last night there I took a walk down to Bernini 's Trevi fountain in order to throw in the coin that would ensure that somehow I would one day return .
15 I landed up in hospital .
16 So that 's why I started up in business .
17 I looked up in amazement at the abrupt shift .
18 I looked up in triumph — to witness an astonishing sight .
19 I looked up in time to see him place his cap on his head and look round the kitchen , patting his pockets as he did so .
20 My headmaster thought I was much too young to try for Oxford , but I went up in March 1959 to do the scholarship exam with two boys from the year above me at school .
21 " You could say I grew up in service — and so it seemed almost natural that Sarah and I should go into service . "
22 I grew up in hotels , ’ she told him .
23 I grew up in London nightlife , ’ says Q , hiding fashion model good looks behind a disconcerting pair of wooden wraparound shades .
24 I grew up in Harlesden .
25 There are no colours — it kinda bugs me out , I just feel so f—ing glad , so incredibly lucky , that I grew up in America .
26 I grew up in Liverpool , you see , back in the twenties , and the filth and the smoke and the poverty , I mean the grinding poverty , especially among the Irish in Liverpool , you do n't see that today .
27 He plays golf , I grew up in Bearsden .
28 But it 's fine for me because really I grew up in Tembisa and I still know many people there . ’
29 I grew up in Marlott .
30 As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to .
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