Example sentences of "i [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 2 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 3 | I got up feeling encouraged and thoroughly supporting her strong positive vision of Europe 's future . |
| 4 | I saw the barrels begin to spin and that 's when I snatched up Barry and whipped out the trusty Smith and West Wittering . |
| 5 | ‘ Just before I phoned up Sir Bryan . ’ |
| 6 | So , I phoned up Joe , and Joe says all the results were n't in because that 's the kind of ordeal next week er er next Friday , tomorrow . |
| 7 | In my spare hours , I drew up Ned 's terms of severance and thought nervously about my own . |
| 8 | ‘ I fixed up months ago to meet my parents in East Berlin today and took some holiday for it , ’ fumed one man . |
| 9 | Dawn ‘ beat the twilight into flakes of fire ’ as I cycled up Gleann Meinich . |
| 10 | When I woke up Elizabeth was crying , a huge pale donkey was breathing down my neck , and Mother Ignatius was smiling . |
| 11 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 12 | As I biked up St Giles ’ yesterday afternoon I passed one of the group walking up to North Oxford . |
| 13 | I could n't even get up Plumpton Street so I came up Fitzclarence but there were fires and damage there too . ’ |
| 14 | I said I added up Whisky , added up wine , nothing in , but they they watch you . |
| 15 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 16 | I walked up Fernhill Rise with a feeling of proprietorial pride . |
| 17 | Only once did our guests mutiny and that was when I served up pastry soup . |
| 18 | So when I got back to Boston I thought , ‘ God , there must be a way to do this live , ’ so I called up Lexicon and said , ‘ I 'm this guitar player … ’ and they gave me one ! |
| 19 | So I called up Mah Muse and I tried to bribe |
| 20 | I started up WordStar full of apprehension , thinking I 'd never get to grips with all those cryptic keystroke shortcuts . |
| 21 | Nearby in Coire an Lochain , Brian Davison and I started up Daddy Longlegs and finished up Ventricle for a very hard route called Big Daddy ( VI ) . |
| 22 | So I rang up Conrad Black 's secretary for an invitation . |
| 23 | ‘ I rang up Scotland Yard to tell you something this morning , and they 'd never heard of you . ’ |
| 24 | The next day I rang up Roger Penrose . |
| 25 | ‘ When I rang up Decin late in the evening and heard that the picture had made its last journey back home in the company of highly explosive gas containers , I said a silent prayer and sang halleluia three times ’ , said the dowager Fürstin Zita von Thun-Hohenstein . |
| 26 | I rang up Monday and I said to her |
| 27 | Holmes , the violinist , you know … and I rang up Tom on the off-chance that he 'd like to come . ’ |
| 28 | Except that I rang up James Barlow , Jenny 's friend , and asked if he could help me . " |
| 29 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 30 | I rang up Derek and Jenny came up to tell us and she said er Eileen 'll be coming on the twentieth and she wo n't be here till between eleven and twelve . |