Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] i [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard a grunt , a hum of air , a bloodstunning crack , then with oddly exact and flowing movements I sat up saying " Money " , took my wallet from its holster , fanned five twenties at the sweating black face , wedged shut the door , made the triple-ring sign , and drove sedately out of Rosalind Court . |
| 2 | When I returned from Sunday school the following Sunday I wrapped up in my scarf and tammy because it was a chilly day . |
| 3 | The following day I signed up for an accountancy course as an ‘ extra option ’ . |
| 4 | A little idea I picked up during a sojourn among the dipsomaniacs of Mother Russia . |
| 5 | On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there . |
| 6 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 7 | ‘ You wrote an article about Eliot in a feminist magazine I picked up in Blackwell 's . |
| 8 | Back in the boiler-room with the ten-gallon bags I roll up my sleeves and rummage in heaps of bloody lint and plaster , cracked phials and syringes , crushed cultures . |
| 9 | Well I , that 's really the only reason I came up was because I wondered if they wanted to take me off it , you know if you wanted to change it , because i it is n't working . |
| 10 | About the only practical thing I came up with was that I probably ought to start smoking again . |
| 11 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 12 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 13 | We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue . |
| 14 | While reading Sir Nicholas 's biography , not one new word I looked up was in Chambers . |
| 15 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 16 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 17 | Er , yorkshire pudding I mix up exactly to the book you know and I just realized the er er what they call it now , the bonus |
| 18 | At our local market I stocked up on walnuts , satsumas and last-minute presents of leather goods , then on Christmas Day the sun blazed down as we tucked into a roast chicken and raised glasses of cheap local champagne . |