Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 2 | on this anyway I , I finally , I did n't like it at all , but now I 'd done , I have me feather back I 'm alright I was like deaf when I got up every morning . |
| 3 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 4 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 5 | When I was walking past the marsh one , one night , when I was on my way back from school I heard a rus rustling noise behind a bu bush , when I went up the , went up first to the bush a big dragon-like thing jumped out from behind the bush , it gave me such a fright I nearly fainted . |
| 6 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
| 7 | When I plucked up the courage to ask my mother about it she just burst into tears and I could not bring myself to question her again . |
| 8 | But the pitch was wet when I picked up a swag against them at Bradford . |
| 9 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 10 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 11 | When I picked up the ball I did n't see the crowd , just that basket . ’ |
| 12 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 13 | In a conversation which she later recalled to friends Diana told him : ‘ You looked so sad when you walked up the aisle at the funeral . |
| 14 | Then you turned thirty , started to nod off at ten-thirty and had attacks of the Blue Spots when you ran up a flight of stairs . |
| 15 | God , thought Madame , when she added up the night 's takings , one week I should write down who 's having who as well as who 's drinking what . |
| 16 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 17 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 18 | A WOMAN was stung by a scorpion when she picked up a bunch of bananas in a supermarket . |
| 19 | Her hands were shaking when she picked up the receiver and dialled the number of Sabrina 's flat . |
| 20 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 21 | she heard when she picked up the phone . |
| 22 | Ven was her first thought when she picked up the receiver . |
| 23 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 24 | There were dances in the Hut by the Strathmore Arms and when we grew up a bit and thought our fathers would n't find out we would nip into the Strathmore Arms for a pint , on the few occasions we could afford . |
| 25 | It was dark when we took up a position among thick briars and long grass . |
| 26 | Which means — since I did n't know about all that when we drew up the contract — there will be a surcharge . ’ |
| 27 | I expect you remember being taken and fetched each day — some four or five miles — sometimes by me and sometimes by Ruth Donnison — and how you used to fume when we picked up the Khin Zaw 's children who were always late . |
| 28 | At the same time , at Edendale in Gore , Bruce Mackenzie , with the help of old Jan , bought a couple of good horses for his sons Sandy and Stu — ‘ for when they grew up a bit ’ . |
| 29 | They tried to kill her and her Cabinet , and nearly succeeded , when they blew up the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative Party conference . |
| 30 | In 1985 French agents killed a photographer when they blew up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour . |