Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | absurd cries , so that I looked up , even then , |
| 2 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 3 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the next week or so until I met up with him again I was suffused with wild imaginings . |
| 6 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 7 | so if I get up there and do it early in the morning , well it do n't get light till half seven |
| 8 | I know there are people around who think I 'm an OK teacher , so if I screw up occasionally that 's not going to sink my reputation . |
| 9 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 10 | Long before I took up climbing on any regular basis I accompanied a friend for a summer evening 's sport at Lawrencefield in Derbyshire . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to discuss things with the owner , and it will probably be a week or so before I make up my mind . |
| 12 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 13 | We shall see whether I 've learnt enough when I go up for those exams . |
| 14 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 15 | so when I got up half past six and I got shaved now at last , gon na go and get ready and pull the curtains back , oh what a of rain , I says oh I says |
| 16 | So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef ! |
| 17 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 18 | ‘ So when I woke up this morning , early for a change , and the sun was actually shining , I suddenly felt lighter . |
| 19 | And we had to laugh , he said , well can you be ill a bit longer because he , er , he cooked her something to eat and he feeds her and so when I rang up I never got her on th , I never spoke to her for a week ! |
| 20 | so I thought while he 's up there rather than me walking up and walking back , cos that would be too much exercise |
| 21 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 22 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 23 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , just before I set up my workshop I sent off the application form to the appropriate office , ’ Ashley explained , ‘ but there was no acknowledgement . |
| 25 | Recently , just before I woke up , I had an insight that I perceived as being connected with the Celtic tradition ; I ‘ saw ’ that animal sacrifice in Celtic mythology was a way of buying interaction with the world of spirits , the souls of the animals being the currency used . |
| 26 | It began with a dream I had just before I got up . |
| 27 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 28 | ‘ Just before I phoned up Sir Bryan . ’ |
| 29 | But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me . |
| 30 | th than first thing in the morning erm whereas I , I think probably I am probably better as soon as I get up than last thing at night . |