Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] up [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I thought while he 's up there rather than me walking up and walking back , cos that would be too much exercise |
| 2 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 3 | I felt a sharp stab in my head so I reached up and found a piece of hay stuck in my hair , it must have come from the farm . |
| 4 | He looked all in and was almost asleep , so I got up and patted his shoulder very gently . |
| 5 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 6 | I 'm real stiff from lying on the bench , so I get up and stretch . |
| 7 | It 's too cold to sit around for long , so I get up and walk onto the bridge . |
| 8 | I decide I am shivering because I am cold , so I stand up and exercise . |
| 9 | Staying seated while he prowls around makes me uneasy , so I stand up and join him at the window . |
| 10 | talking about condoms and me throwing up and all this . |
| 11 | Suddenly , there was a commotion at the door and I looked up and saw the skinny preacher walk in . |
| 12 | And I looked up and the sea had gone calm . |
| 13 | And I looked up and said it 's here ! |
| 14 | Just got to counter , she started putting it through and I looked up and there were these signposts , and it says cash only . |
| 15 | Well , they o , they have n't bothered up there , so I think people , I mean I was doing it , I was , she sort of shoved them in this thingie and I looked up and it said , green ! |
| 16 | There was the board of governors sitting at the back on this cold grey Monday and I got up and I did some Shakespeare and by the time I finished , dawn was breaking . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , but that means — if that desk light was on and I got up and started to accelerate towards it , the light goes blue . |
| 18 | Nick and I got up and went outside , where groups of friends were gathered . |
| 19 | When my rheumatoid arthritis was very bad it has been very bad and very chronic , and it still can be some days , erm I had more ways of getting up and down those stairs and I got up and down , but I had to invent ways to do it . |
| 20 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 21 | Er , and I got up and I protested about it , on the grounds that if they could n't run a great big pop hall for , and I wholly agreed with the idea , of of them providing the facility . |
| 22 | I had an awful dream today , I dreamt my nan , and I woke up and I 'm crying . |
| 23 | I dreamt about my nan and I woke up and I was crying . |
| 24 | And I woke up and I found myself that I was the only one . |
| 25 | Holmes and I walked up and down in front of the house . |
| 26 | And I walk up and punch her what , what , what have I done , think about it , what have I done ? |
| 27 | A fitter and I went up and did just that . |
| 28 | And I went up and down the road and miles away then came back and I could n't stop because this bike was very old fashioned and you had to stop it by pedalling back |
| 29 | I sort off , parked car there and I came up and he had room to do that |
| 30 | The elephant 's belly heaved up and down rhythmically and slow , and I floated up and down with it , and I could hear its great heart-beat like the heart-beat of a new and gentler world . |