Example sentences of "but [conj] i [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael still lives with his mum and I live with my mum , but if I sleep up my house , he sleeps up my house . |
| 2 | But before I take up that theme let me try to get closer to the ground . |
| 3 | But after I locked up I took it round to Mr Bishop 's brother . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can give it up , ’ he said in 1987 , ‘ but when I wake up in the morning , I actually think about drink . |
| 5 | I do not know how long I was asleep , but when I woke up I was cold and wet . |
| 6 | I do not know how long I slept , but when I woke up , I was in the middle of a storm . |
| 7 | I did hear him moving around but when I woke up later neither he nor the redhead was to be seen . |
| 8 | Late that night , I though I heard the baby crying , but when I got up to look , he was quietly asleep in hid bed . |
| 9 | But when I went up to er , was called as a witness I , this was I amazed me , the Jury Judge said I wish to affirm , he wanted to know why . |
| 10 | But when I looked up , I saw , to my great astonishment , a large island in the sky , between me and the sun . |
| 11 | I pushed them away with a shudder , but when I looked up I saw , lying on a shelf opposite , an infant or Cupid carved in black marble . |
| 12 | But when I looked up and saw you , all I could think of was holding you , kissing you — ’ |
| 13 | But when I looked up I saw I was underneath a car . |
| 14 | I had to admit , I did feel good for a moment or two psychologically speaking , but when I stood up to finish tidying my room I began to feel rather ashamed , even though no one had been here to see me or hear me . |
| 15 | But when I glance up , he is pacing round his old armchair with his lips pursed . |
| 16 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 17 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 18 | ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain . |
| 19 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |