Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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1 | So I kept up the act , I opened the door and said his name in a quiet voice and hobbled weakly across the cellar and up the steps . |
2 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
3 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
4 | So I pedalled up the Via San Pietro . |
5 | so I rang up the place and said I would like to go are you having another ? |
6 | So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet . |
7 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
8 | So I wrapped up the conversation as rudely as someone on Newsnight trying to silence a politician , just as he dealt me a social body blow . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I I have n't contacted only from what who er Granville said so I picked up the communion the straight away and then I could n't and she 's coming on the or that Sunday the first |
11 | I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your |
12 | So I picked up the thing with an empty bottle and put it in the , on the kitchen . |
13 | So you made up the rest ? |
14 | So we drove up the Llanberis Pass and on the way conceived the unoriginal compromise idea of a Snowdon Horseshoe circuit . |
15 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
16 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
17 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
18 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
19 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
20 | Erm so he set up the corner as a darkroom and started doing playing about with his with his own black and white printing . |
21 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
22 | So he picked up the receiver and waited . |
23 | so he dug up the lawn and put a little garage in |
24 | As the last echoes of American drawl died away we scrambled up the final pitch and slithered down the dangerous descent in near darkness . |
25 | When she went downstairs he picked up the photo which stood on the dressing-table , one of his parents at someone else 's wedding . |
26 | Finally he gave up the attempt , and took the most direct way back to his house . |
27 | Slowly she picked up the flowers , not knowing what to say . |
28 | Eventually she plucked up the courage , half afraid by now that Luke would come to find her if she was any longer , and stepped out . |
29 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
30 | After giving your letter to my ‘ bonne ’ yesterday I gave up the fight and retired in good order to bed , where I am still . |