Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
| 2 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 3 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
| 4 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |
| 7 | go I pick up the accent . |
| 8 | I pick up the phone . |
| 9 | I pick up the phone again and dial the Home Office . |
| 10 | I pick up the bike and return it to the shed . |
| 11 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 12 | I pick up the gun and pocket it . |
| 13 | I pick up the receiver . |
| 14 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 15 | I know what a flea and a slug look like , I do n't want to be frightened to death every time I pick up the packet . |
| 16 | I pick up the paper and think about my father 's Social Security card sitting on my desk at home . |
| 17 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
| 18 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 19 | The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver . |
| 20 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | always nought , and you just , so I line up the way that is , where am I ? |
| 24 | One man who 's going to stay upstairs has the head of the wardrobe , you go tro I go trotting downstairs you see , and then I climb up the ladder And the ladder remember is over the edge of the sill . |
| 25 | I hang up the phone . |
| 26 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 27 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 28 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 29 | Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it . |
| 30 | but you got to have been out of work six months , so I said well I 've been out of work six months , so she , I 've got that to do tomorrow , so I get up the firm this Spinny Hill , Northampton , that 's an adult education centre where you can go and learn the skills of your trade , but she said that might not start until September |