Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] up [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAVING found a school for our three children and a house to rent , my wife and I took up our new life on . |
| 2 | And I made up my mind — " Now Mary Edgar you 'll be terribly sea-sick , " so I was prepared for the worst . |
| 3 | And I felt very glad I 'd come out and I lifted up my head a bit and let the rain come on to my face and I thought ‘ rainwater 's good for the skin anyway ’ . |
| 4 | He sweeps under the bench I 'm sitting on , and I lift up my feet so he can sweep under them . |
| 5 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 6 | We made camp that night in a clearing in the woods , and I put up my tent in what appeared to be a large sandpit , in the vague hope that perhaps the mozzies might not like it . |
| 7 | Magwitch and I picked up our bags , and said goodbye to Herbert and Startop , so that we would be ready to stop the ship and get on board . |
| 8 | They jumped out excitedly and I picked up my pen to record what they said . |
| 9 | So , when the house is full , and my husband 's away , and I give up my room to some guest like your Rainbow 's Aunt Goldie — I spend the night in my father 's study , and reading all the texts that were n't written for the eyes of women . |
| 10 | D. A. I was on a school-crossing duty for disabled children and I held up my hand for a motor cyclist to stop and he rode right past me . |
| 11 | One year ago , my wife and I packed up our young son , double-locked the door and moved from New York to London . |
| 12 | ‘ I am a teacher of English at a school in Cologne and I gave up my job at the end of March and returned to England . ’ |
| 13 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 14 | It was a great disappointment but I made up my mind there and then that it would be different next term . |
| 15 | But I made up my mind not to move until the battle was over . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ You miss it coming up to the time , but I made up my mind some time ago to call it quits . |