Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one was able to give us at that time the valuable advice which I only picked up years later , namely that the great danger in cholera was dehydration , necessitating that the sufferer be given frequent drinks of cold water previously boiled . |
| 2 | I once got up Iago in three days when I was in rep . |
| 3 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 4 | I nearly got up ad went away out of pity , I found this so unpleasant in a slip of a child . |
| 5 | There 's a , I , I nearly booked up tickets to go and see this , but I did n't know if anybody would fancy going to see it with me . |
| 6 | I actually gave up work while [ mother ] was in hospital … when she first had her stroke … |
| 7 | I never took up Sylvia Grey 's offer . |
| 8 | But yesterday , as she nursed the baby she had been praying so many years for , she said : ‘ I never gave up hope . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The offers of more ads started to pour in , but I never gave up stills . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues . |