Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 2 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 3 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 4 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 5 | As I walked through the drizzle I imagined showing up at Bob 's CND group and saying , ‘ Do n't worry . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was out last night I got mixed up in something . |
| 7 | So congratulations to Bicester , after the game I managed to catch up with Colin Vynal who scored one of the goals , rather poor quality I 'm afraid , he was on a mobile phone erm a bit of celebration going on , but here 's Colin Vynal of the Bicester Rugby Club . |
| 8 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 9 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 10 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |
| 11 | ‘ I wonder what dreadful thing I did to end up as a human being ? ’ |
| 12 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 13 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 14 | In the end I had to go up to him and bring him back to the fire . |
| 15 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 16 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |