Example sentences of "i have [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
| 2 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 3 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 4 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 5 | As you can see I have set up a set of equations which can be summarized in the following formulae : |
| 6 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 7 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 8 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 9 | ‘ By the time I was just 22 , I had run up a clothes debt of nearly £4,000 ’ |
| 10 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 11 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 12 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 13 | I had lit up a cigarette on leaving aunt 's house , without realising it . |
| 14 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 15 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |
| 16 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 17 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 19 | But I 've packed up a bundle of bedding — towels — things like that for you to use in the meantime . ’ |
| 20 | He smiles : ‘ I 've grown up a lot and I 'm now enjoying important fights that used to fill me with nerves . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've grown up a lot in the last two years , ’ she said quietly and I silently agreed with her . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |
| 23 | ‘ When I 've made up a lie I can believe in , ’ came the reply . |
| 24 | d' ya know it 's funny , on a Wednesday when I go , when they 've gone home and I 've tidied up a bit |
| 25 | There 's the odd exception where I 've picked up a brand new one and it 's worked right away . |
| 26 | I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind . |
| 28 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 30 | I have built up a conception in which the agents belonging to a given economic class ( defined at the level of property holding ) may be distributed in various ways into more or less strongly formed social collectivities of various degrees of political pertinence . |