Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wonder if I ought to take up weight-lifting . ’ |
| 2 | Dear God , I must give up drink . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll go up Glen Gelder . |
| 4 | I think I 'll go up town in a minute I think . |
| 5 | Do n't forget that letter I think I 'll go up car |
| 6 | And I 'll beat up Tony Adams after . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll take up golf in my old age . ’ |
| 8 | Well , at that point we 've got to three o'clock and the end of the term , erm I 'll take up Totem and Taboo , and its more forward lis looking aspects in the first lecture of er , next term , and I wish you all a happy Christmas , and new year , and hope you have a good , a good vacation and look forward to seeing you here again , the first Thursday of next term . |
| 9 | I 'll ring up Ludens . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll ring up Uncle Bean , and ask him to come and fetch us , ’ Nutty decided , but the Nicholsons had no phone and the nearest call-box was past the cinema in the town-centre . |
| 11 | and then we , get my money , I 've er over a hundred pound , then , go out , play a round whatever and then later I 'll phone up Roddy , tell him to meet me on Saturday and he |
| 12 | Any more and I could set up shop ! ’ |
| 13 | There was no way I could bring up children there . |
| 14 | She smiled at this and said if I wanted a change I could knit up navy blue wool for the Royal Navy , which I did . |
| 15 | The navigator had survived with head injuries but the third crew member was O.K. I signalled to Athens asking them to designate the nearest airfield where I could pick up Brown and White in a Maryland . |
| 16 | I could pick up areas I 'm not happy with but that 's inevitable . |
| 17 | internal bleeding , right so the internal bleeding sometimes shows itself externally , for example if I had damage to my lungs or severe damage to the inside of my lungs I 'd cough up blood and that 's in , what do you think ? |
| 18 | I would have had to pay tax unless I 'd set up trusts , er by setting up trusts I could then effectively delay paying the tax er use that money to invest in new companies . |
| 19 | I thought I 'd end up feeling frustrated by you staying on your moralistic high horse without ever offering any concrete political proposals . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I 'd shoot up drugs or have parties and get drunk and sleep with boys ? |
| 21 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 22 | I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again . |
| 23 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 24 | With one sergeant I had then , I used to make up stories about keeping an eye on thieves if he did n't find me at the points . |
| 25 | When you was little I used to make up stories for him did n't I June ? |
| 26 | I soon realized that if I made it a bit spicy , I 'd get more than threepence for it , so I used to make up limericks , things like , |
| 27 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |
| 28 | Haines asked if I would ring up Max Aitken — whom he knew to be a very good friend — to ask him to dissuade his editor from publishing the story , which had until then been kept as a dark secret . |
| 29 | Her favourite verse of scripture was " I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills , from whence cometh my help . |
| 30 | ‘ I WILL lift up mine hills to the hills . ’ |