Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |
| 2 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 3 | ‘ Must be getting back to Brigade H.Q , Sarge , ’ I remarked as I picked up my rifle and prepared to leave . |
| 4 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 5 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 6 | If I went if I went up there |
| 7 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 8 | Well I thought if I washed up then I 'd have my drink after . |
| 9 | you never guess what Andy Spence 's mum did when I went up there for dinner once ? , it 's vile |
| 10 | They smiled as I hammed up my exhaustion , then carried on effortlessly climbing . |
| 11 | Most of them left me alone whilst I wrote and if they did want something they waited till I looked up . |
| 12 | I the car I had before I gave up the company car was a Mercedes Sports S L |
| 13 | ‘ But it 's my time , ’ I said as I stood up , ‘ and I ca n't spare it . |
| 14 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 15 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 16 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 17 | It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When a friend suggested that I take up racing , my initial reaction was that at 42 I was too old . |
| 20 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |