Example sentences of "up [prep] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if it 's a toss up between me and Susan it 's , yeah Susan ! |
| 2 | I trembled so much I broke the vase I had been dusting , and I felt a sweet fountain of delight flow up through me . |
| 3 | Almost as many people turned up for me as had for Youngman . |
| 4 | I turned and gave him a wave , ‘ Do n't wait up for me , I may be late . ’ |
| 5 | I keep on walking , cos Marie 'll be waiting up for me . |
| 6 | But to my disappointment Edward never turned up for me . |
| 7 | The programme summed up for me all the human frustrations , hopelessness and despair . |
| 8 | He was out , but his mother says she 'll tell him , and that he will shut the hens up for me when I have to go out to visit my friend . |
| 9 | ‘ Abigail , my posset 's gone cold , can you warm it up for me ? ’ |
| 10 | My auntie and uncle were with us as well , and it was awful , no one stuck up for me . |
| 11 | There are pressures building up for me to do all sorts of things but I do n't want to accept them , ’ she says confidently , her blue eyes filled with a new purpose . |
| 12 | We are loudly human all the way back as they light up for me just how far I had strayed . |
| 13 | ‘ Thanks for sticking up for me , ’ he snapped at last , an unmistakable sneer in his tone . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , look , thanks for fixing things up for me . |
| 15 | He made my guitar riffs up for me and used to present the rest of us with tapes , ’ says Solowka . |
| 16 | I said nothing , diplomatic coward that I was , but wondered at her generosity in drawing up for me . |
| 17 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 18 | Uncle waited up for me and was so cross that I was really frightened . |
| 19 | Richard Megson , who runs the hostel over at Blackton , very kindly came over to fix it up for me . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know anyone else would stick up for me the way you do . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 22 | I despised the other actors for not sticking up for me , and for sniggering at the accent when I finally did it . |
| 23 | The Copleys wo n't have waited up for me . |
| 24 | The board has the same switches on it as I have on the rack , so if Bryan presses the board they light up for me too , so I can see what he 's got on . |
| 25 | Mike had a cassette that he ran through some speakers — they had the whole equipment set up for me . |
| 26 | Dancer 's fixed up for me to make a bomb coaching movie stars in Palm Springs . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it is Adler rather than Freud who sums up for me what was happening at this stage of the disease . |
| 28 | I did n't make up my mind , it was made up for me . |
| 29 | Before he finished speaking he had sprung towards the stairs and up them , shouting now , ‘ It 'll be a longish drive ; ask Mary to put something up for me ; soup or something . ’ |
| 30 | He said : ‘ The fact that I have not scored yet spices the match up for me . |