Example sentences of "i [verb] up [prep] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 2 | I sit up in bed and swing my legs to the floor . |
| 3 | I sit up in bed and switch the light on , shaken awake by pure embarrassment . |
| 4 | I got up before dawn and made my mooring at Fambridge while there was still water to row ashore . |
| 5 | I came up behind Esmerelda and held the lines just behind her little freckled elbows , waiting for the tug . |
| 6 | ‘ I know it all depends on me how I stand up to games and how I play . ’ |
| 7 | In March , 1939 I pulled myself together sufficiently ; I faced up to realities and joined the Auxiliary Fire Service . |
| 8 | I pressed up against Beejay and leaning forward , covered the mare 's eyes with my hands . |
| 9 | Well do you want that Littlewood 's shirt that I 've got , still says that we 're going , I get up on Sunday and go to and , no we 've got to go to with that coat , take that coat over |
| 10 | But when Sam I could put it on in the bedroom and sit and watch it and Sunday , I get up on Sundays and that that cat 's ugly I get up Sundays now because Grange Hill 's on . |
| 11 | I wake up at night and I think of maybe some kid we 've been dealing with . |
| 12 | Can we talk about job description , because I am not clear about those , I mean to the end of the audit , I , I rang up to day and asked about whether the , who should be signing them . |
| 13 | And I looked up at tap and this water were pouring out of tap , I thought oh ! |
| 14 | And I looked up at Dave and said here Dave and he said what ? |
| 15 | ‘ I looked up to Valerie and Lesley when I was a kid and I hope today 's youngsters will see me as a role model . ’ |
| 16 | Back in April I tossed up between courgettes and bush marrow plants , and the courgettes won . |
| 17 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 18 | Refreshed , I went up on deck and looked at the waves . |
| 19 | I helped myself , and when I had finished , I went up on deck and began sorting out the rigging . |
| 20 | Well , I suppose the Old Harry Rocks do bear a slight resemblance to the Needles , but I forgave him when I went up on deck and saw that Vigilant 's motor boat was following the yacht into Poole and had confirmed our proper position with Southampton . |
| 21 | Well I was I was me leg for a bit too But I went up to Monklands and |
| 22 | ‘ Then I went up to Chicago and Detroit to work and , when I came home again years later , my mountain was gone . |
| 23 | so I went up to Streatham and did voluntary work in the maternity home |
| 24 | I grew up with Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw , and we three played together as children . |
| 25 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 26 | I grew up on movies and have always believed that if cameras had been invented before Ur and Og first trod the stone age boards then no one would ever have bothered to invent plays , they would have just leapt straight into the cinema . |
| 27 | But it 's fine for me because really I grew up in Tembisa and I still know many people there . ’ |
| 28 | Two days after seeing my surgeon and exactly a week before going into hospital , aided by my wife , I crawled up to London and met the hero of the book . |
| 29 | I jumped up in fright and in the process knocked the snuff out of her hand . |
| 30 | I jumped up in fright and anger . |