Example sentences of "i [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver . |
| 32 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 33 | I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do . |
| 34 | Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there ! |
| 35 | So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet . |
| 36 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 37 | I got home , I phoned up the police , and they say , ‘ Oh , no , we do n't know anything about any road blocks . ’ |
| 38 | I phoned up the bank this morning . |
| 39 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 40 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
| 41 | I drew up the list , you 've got it written in there . |
| 42 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 43 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 44 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 45 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 46 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 47 | I found a lens in an old box and I used , I got another two lenses , and I fitted them together in an a tube , I had no tubing but there was an old bicycle at the house and I cut up the frame and put one lens at the one end of the frame and the seat pillar , I used the seat pillar for focusing . |
| 48 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | ‘ Now then — you can start to dry yourself with that towel , while I heat up the tongs . ’ |
| 51 | always nought , and you just , so I line up the way that is , where am I ? |
| 52 | and the other is , why should I clear up the mess that this guy 's made . |
| 53 | So I pedalled up the Via San Pietro . |
| 54 | Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley |
| 55 | One man who 's going to stay upstairs has the head of the wardrobe , you go tro I go trotting downstairs you see , and then I climb up the ladder And the ladder remember is over the edge of the sill . |
| 56 | I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide . |
| 57 | A can of Tetleys Bitter never tasted better as Jim and I soaked up the sun burning its way through the Californian coastal mist . |
| 58 | I hang up the phone . |
| 59 | I raced up the Stuart Highway at 180 kph ; there were few travellers and the only signs of wildlife were the customary dead kangaroos . |
| 60 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |