Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you went up the fire escape , which had fifty two steps , to go up . |
| 2 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 3 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 4 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine . |
| 7 | And I walked up the village this morning the birds were singing their songs |
| 8 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |
| 9 | It was a wet and windy day and I warmed up a little more carefully than usual . |
| 10 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 11 | No no i if it was if it was the likes of a say for instance , and I owned the book , it was my black book , and I ran up a hundred pounds on it . |
| 12 | Charley and I escaped up the chimney , but Noah was caught . |
| 13 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 14 | We were called by EMI , RCA , Arista , Warner Brothers and I hung up the phone on all of them . |
| 15 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 16 | And I picked up a pack of contraceptives . |
| 17 | And I picked up a load of washing the other day and put it in the washing machine and I washed it . |
| 18 | ‘ But this is what really gets at me : when we started our run in , and I picked up the diaper , I found it was already stained . |
| 19 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 20 | It then occurred to me that I might be able to help , and I picked up the telephone and spoke to Winston . |
| 21 | ‘ Steve and I teamed up a while back . |
| 22 | It was after nine-thirty when we finished , because I remember that Mrs Reynolds had gone home and I washed up the cups myself . ’ |
| 23 | A can of Tetleys Bitter never tasted better as Jim and I soaked up the sun burning its way through the Californian coastal mist . |
| 24 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 25 | He was about thirty years as as erm secretary of the Glen Ayloch gathering and somebody made up a pipe tune and called it Graham 's Tune . |
| 26 | You kept them and you smashed up the kiosk . |
| 27 | They provided a bus , you had a bus ride and you picked up a couple of guides er , who during the night would take you over the er take you over the er Pyrenees , er over the mountains er , the Pyrenees , you see becau er you 're in need of a guide because the er the frontier posts etcetera etcetera were shut , were closed . |
| 28 | And who put up the fat poster ? ’ |
| 29 | Pempie is terrifically keen on auspicious signs , and she cheered up no end the day after the exterminator , because she drew a winning ticket in the village raffle . |
| 30 | When Sara returned they drank the ale and she brought up the subject of an increased allowance for her and the children . |