Example sentences of "up my [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I covered up my head and waited for it to strike , ’ he explained yesterday . |
| 2 | I smiled , sat closer , took up my brandy and cradled it in front of the candle flame . |
| 3 | He picked up my suitcase and carried it up the last flight , putting it down outside my door and turning to me . |
| 4 | I picked up my knife and attempted to copy the old lady but I soon got into difficulty . |
| 5 | When I left she picked up my scarf and tied it over my head . |
| 6 | I picked up my shopping and headed up the road . |
| 7 | This morning rang up my sister and said I would visit her tomorrow . |
| 8 | I wound up my Olympus and took shots of everything there was . |
| 9 | Neither Brian nor I had told our mother about these beatings but now , incensed , I pulled up my shorts and showed him some half-healed scars . |
| 10 | I instinctively put up my arms and caught him . ’ |
| 11 | Me , I weighed up my chances and decided to watch it . |
| 12 | I picked up my coffee and savoured a sit-down in the canteen . |
| 13 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 14 | Around four o'clock I packed up my books and went into my house to wash and change . |
| 15 | I picked up my books and stuffed them away in my old school satchel , the one my father — Tata — had given me when I won my open scholarship to St Paul 's . |
| 16 | Not wishing to remain in this part of the farm one moment longer , I picked up my rifle and dashed back the war I had come , taking advantage of the cover offered by the farm buildings . |
| 17 | Luckily , my after-match tantrum in the dressing room certainly shook up my rabble and got a good performance against Frampton . |
| 18 | ‘ This little swine put his hand up my skirt and groped me . |
| 19 | Then he pushed up my nightie and put his hand down between my legs . |
| 20 | I threw up my hands and inclined my head . |
| 21 | Ah , Miss Potts , but a monster of a spider , it ran up my arm and disappeared . |
| 22 | Mr Lazarus described it ‘ as if a bolt of energy shot up my spine and burst through the top of my head . |
| 23 | Ever since I gave up my job and started waiting for the film to happen , I too have felt like a gap in between things . |
| 24 | ‘ I started making hats when I gave up my job and needed something to do . |
| 25 | When the autumn came , and I finally packed up my car and made ready to leave Cliff Top , she came over unexpectedly emotional . |
| 26 | So I closed all those books and it was then that I opened up my eyes and looked around me and said , ‘ Now I 'm reading ’ . ’ |
| 27 | I picked up my bag and went back into the cold street . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She frowned for a moment , then picked up my hand and led me to the window . |
| 30 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |