Example sentences of "one [noun sg] i [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 2 | One night I dressed up in one of Mum 's frocks and Frankie donned Dad 's billy-cock hat but in the middle of ‘ Rock of Ages ’ Dad returned . |
| 3 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 4 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 5 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 6 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |