Example sentences of "when i was [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where was she this morning when I was phoning up ? |
| 2 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 3 | I thought wryly of the days , not many years before , when I was holed up in one dark room on the wrong side of town . |
| 4 | ‘ Because he tried it once before , when I was working up in Manchester . |
| 5 | That evening , when I was putting up my tent and preparing my meal , Mick was singing and seemed exceptionally cheerful . |
| 6 | ‘ The music I listened to when I was growing up was mainly what you 'd call the ‘ British new wave invasion ’ — the Buzzcocks , Generation X , early XTC , Elvis Costello . |
| 7 | Says Brian Bovell of the Posse : ‘ I remember when I was growing up in Tottenham in the Sixties , how my mum and dead dealt with potentially scary , racist situations — they found dignity through humour . |
| 8 | I had my fill of fucking antiques when I was growing up in Pimlico , and in Trenton , New Jersey . |
| 9 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |