Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 2 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 3 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 4 | I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew . |
| 5 | I drew up a form with these headings and time was calibrated in fifteen minute interval boxes which , by the use of a marking code , could also show five minute intervals . |
| 6 | I woke up a couple of hours later . |
| 7 | ‘ Steve and I teamed up a while back . |
| 8 | Now I had the hang of it , I racked up a handful of top to bottoms with plenty of vertical . |
| 9 | I turned up a couple of minutes early , found the door into the suite ajar and the sitting-room in darkness . |
| 10 | As I dug up a bronze Roman belt-stud , I realised that the site was a mixture of historical periods . |
| 11 | I must do something , I thought , so I rang up a friend of mine called David Woolcock . |
| 12 | ‘ So tell me about the twins , ’ I said , not because I was interested , but because I wanted the senator to talk while I dreamed up a strategy to turn down his request . |
| 13 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
| 14 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 16 | I arrived at the shooting school well before the start , wearing a mackintosh , and with my umbrella up , I took up a position to watch . |
| 17 | Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ . |
| 18 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 19 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 20 | I took up a lot of my daffs and started , erm erm I never take them up every year |
| 21 | I ran up a signal , a signal she knew . |
| 22 | In the spring of 1940 John Avison and I rounded up a group of like-minded radio people with the object of renting a large house as far away as possible from downtown Vancouver . |
| 23 | I held up a bottle of Long John that I had brought from Helsinki . |
| 24 | Yeah I I held up a traffic jam of about sixty cars doing that . |
| 25 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |
| 26 | I held up a hand to shield my eyes . |
| 27 | Now listen , ’ I held up a hand as he was about to burst into song again , ‘ you got a friend at the Regal Arms ? ’ |
| 28 | I held up a hand . |
| 29 | I held up a hand . |
| 30 | I held up a hand . |