Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson , pretending to be a drama student wanting advice . |
| 2 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |
| 3 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 4 | I just brought up the files . |
| 5 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 6 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 7 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 8 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 10 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |
| 11 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 12 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 13 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 14 | However , such was A Smooth One 's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths . |
| 15 | She often rang up the producer and had a go at him and made him swear never to do anything like that again . |
| 16 | She even tarted up the buckle with sequins and pinned feathers in her battered hat . |
| 17 | In despair , one day , of finding a well-fitting winter coat , she hastily counted up the amount of land around Tollemarche which her husband had bought up and decided he was worth at least a Persian lamb coat . |
| 18 | We soon gave up the hunt . |
| 19 | I know I was sadder than at the end of most commissions when we finally broke up the team in the refreshment room of Waterloo Station after we had left the ship in Southampton . |
| 20 | To Howard 's stubborn insistence that the Nez Perce move immediately to the reservation , Toohoolhoolzote answered : ‘ The earth is part of our body , and we never gave up the earth ’ . |
| 21 | He was appalled at their habits , saying they just covered up the dirt by placing new rushes over the old , thus covering the dirt and filth which was caused by animals wandering in and out of the houses . |
| 22 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 23 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 24 | They also smashed up the peasants ' illicit vodka stills . |
| 25 | They implicitly set up the ‘ missing market ’ for the externality . |
| 26 | Laying these aside quietly , they then prised up the thin lead sheathing from round the edges of the glass and gouged out the putty holding the pane in place . |
| 27 | These were manned by guards whose only access to the towers was by way of a single rope which they had to climb in a gymnastic fashion ; they then pulled up the rope and remained in the towers for the rest of the shift . |
| 28 | Viewers were therefore happy with a mixed diet , rather as though , in a public library , they sometimes picked up The Times , sometimes the Daily Mail , sometimes the Sun . |
| 29 | They never blew up the houses . |
| 30 | Television crews were invited to stand in front of the US Embassy and film a senior member of the staff , in black tie and dark suit , as he slowly wound up the folding door of an inconspicuous , metal-framed garage . |