Example sentences of "i [vb past] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS .
2 I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns .
3 With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court .
4 By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself .
5 In one of the Belfast inner-city communities , I built up a strong personal relationship with a very poor family .
6 I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder .
7 I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal .
8 It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates .
9 I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield .
10 I hastened up the big pitch , finding time in the rush to note its splendid position , with awesome exposure at the overhang .
11 I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me .
12 I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company .
13 When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone
14 and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in .
15 Now I came up the hard way , same as you .
16 The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out .
17 I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative .
18 In company with an English artist , I climbed up the steep hill-side for many successive weeks to paint the Needle Rock .
19 And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim .
20 I screwed up the brown bag and flipped it behind one of the disco 's speakers .
21 The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car .
22 I walked up a small flight of steps to the red-tiled side colonnade .
23 And I said when I walked up the other day
24 I slowed down but even then I locked up the front wheel in one of the fast corners and I fell again .
25 But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me .
26 ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat .
27 I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood .
28 I blame the fact that a crow chose to hover below me as I scrambled up a tricky bit of path , made more perilous by loose shifting gravel .
29 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 .
30 I started up the cold stone steps to the gallery .
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