Example sentences of "the [noun sg] i [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I muttered thanks and as she disappeared to the kitchen I stepped up to the sitting room door , knocked rather timidly and entered . |
| 2 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
| 3 | It all goes on in my head and I usually find that my first sketch depicts the piece I end up with . |
| 4 | The town I grew up in was a typical , ugly small town in the north of England . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , there were good times and bad times , ’ said Connor , adding reminiscently , ‘ Did I ever tell you of the night I stood up to Jack Johnson ? ’ |
| 6 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 7 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 8 | Later on in the day I wander up to Low Force with no boat and no-one except my girlfriend and the fish trying to swim and jump up the fall for company . |
| 9 | Lord Taylor was n't required to change the game I grew up with . |
| 10 | That was the mentality I grew up with . ’ |
| 11 | The night before I could not get to sleep then in the morning I woke up at half past five when I was meant to get up at seven thirty . |
| 12 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
| 13 | Leaping off the bed I hurtled up to the rod which by now was screaming off and picking it up I felt the line pluck nicely through my fingers ; knowing that it must be a cat on the other end gave me a real thrill . |
| 14 | She is a historian , or more properly a micro-historian , and she is writing a history of our hillside — the road I walk up from the station and the various lanes and alleyways that open off it . |
| 15 | When I nervously entered the breakfast-room I looked up at — a black column ! |
| 16 | Well actually I feel a lot happier if you say that , because can I actually one of the first questions you asked , which I never got a chance to answer , though Terry did , was which what sort of criteria one would use to say that a Prime Minister 's good and erm I was sort of thinking of that as Terry was answering and I think the thing I came up with is you want somebody who represents , or is sensitive to at least , a very wide swathe of views across the population , but also someone who 's intelligent and caring enough to take into account the minority views , and you want somebody who 's aim is to make most of the people happy most of the time , sort of thing , erm but who 's also prepared to take unpopular steps erm if he believes it 's necessary . |
| 17 | I would have returned it to you before , but the information I dug up about it was disturbing to say the least . |
| 18 | That was particularly true for the generation I grew up in . |
| 19 | As soon as I was out of sight of the school I cut up through the cottages and round the back of the school on to the path to Bourani . |
| 20 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 21 | ‘ But I love Lincolnshire and Lady Mead — that 's the house I grew up in . |