Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] it up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’ |
| 2 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
| 3 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't , I just happened to see that tatty book of horoscopes Myra keeps on her desk while I was waiting for you one day , so I looked it up , ’ Dana said defiantly . |
| 5 | ‘ He hit me with the Christmas tree , so I picked it up and hit him back , ’ Lorraine told bemused police in Newport , Gwent , yesterday . |
| 6 | It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed . |
| 7 | I thought that I was being stupid , so I gave it up . |
| 8 | ‘ But it was too much hard work and sacrifice , so I gave it up when I was sixteen . |
| 9 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 10 | Karen says that her mum used to compete as a swimmer , so she took it up and caught the bug . |
| 11 | Yes , so you divided it up like that |
| 12 | This year , which must prove that we dreamed it up , it was the THIRD Monday which saw the longest queues of all — to see John McEnroe and Michael Stich win the final set of the men 's doubles . |
| 13 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 14 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 15 | This MacGregor he was to be a minister , and he was a well educated man but unfortunately he 'd made a mistake when he preached his sermon so he gave it up . |
| 16 | and I stuck it up here then when it comes through , they brought the car on the Tuesday |
| 17 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 18 | A copy of Return Safe from the Wilderness lay on a workbench , and I picked it up idly and looked through it . |
| 19 | Your letter arrived early last week — Tuesday — and I picked it up as I was on my way out of the guest house where I 'm staying at the moment . |
| 20 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 21 | I do n't know , but she , I , she waved to me and I waved to her and I picked it up and I said do you want this ? |
| 22 | No he dropped out and I picked it up when I was |
| 23 | and then this , this , the phone went and I picked it up and this squeaky voice at the end of the phone said |
| 24 | When I was a lad I could have seventy for them , I sat on there and I licked it up , er , a good afternoon , I was just having a break by sands , I said when I was a lad I could have seventy ice creams |
| 25 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 26 | One of the difficulties that actually struck me last night about an organization like A B S A is that how wide , and in fact I 've got something in my filing cabinet next door which will tell me if I looked it up , how wide is the umbrella of the arts because we do n't have anything similar for sport , we do n't have anything specific |
| 27 | I mean even me I could if I lifted it up |
| 28 | If I opened it up could we take care of the healing together ? |
| 29 | I know it ai n't really polite , but my hands are shaking so much I 'd spill it if I picked it up . |
| 30 | Cos I looked it up in the paper ! |