Example sentences of "i [verb] up " in BNC.

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1 How long would it take me to drive up there ? ’
2 He did n't need me building up yet more false hopes which did nothing except try his patience .
3 In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture .
4 that 'll save me phoning up to say can I have a script please
5 I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind .
6 Ethel found me doubled up .
7 Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ .
8 ‘ D' you want me to go up and tell him ? ’
9 ‘ Then , about a month later , he asked me to go up to Camp David while he and his family were using the facility .
10 Just before Christmas , Pogo invited Aubrey and me to go up to Melton Mowbray to hunt .
11 Do you want me to go up and get you some ?
12 Want me to go up there ?
13 Laura , you let me throw up all over the alley , all over Bill 's cab .
14 The thought of her tits pressed up against my face nearly made me throw up , and I had-to disappoint him .
15 If you'se happen to be comin' here to Dublin at some time or other in the future — which praise the Lord you will be , for t is God 's own city — and you happen to be driving down O'Connell Street and you see me standin' here like dis , with me arms up ; then whether I 'm here or not , you stop . ’
16 ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’
17 Did George suggest you got me mixed up in all this ? ’
18 ‘ Or , ’ he demanded harshly , ‘ do you have someone other than me lined up to pay your mortgage ? ’
19 so I thought while he 's up there rather than me walking up and walking back , cos that would be too much exercise
20 Let me catch up here some points left in suspension .
21 It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’
22 Toying with that idea started a train of thought about some of the other activities probably open to super-beings , which led me to conjure up some images of myself with Sergia , the Ardakkean , minus her costume , in the Orgitunnel .
23 I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp .
24 She did n't say anything , she just gestured me to come up and into the studio and what was worst , I was red , and she was not .
25 ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’
26 ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen .
27 ‘ He did n't mention you until he asked me to come up here with him . ’
28 and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ?
29 Mum an , mum and dad expected me to come up last week
30 I mean that our dad was gon na come up , he says do you want me to come up , but there 's nowt you can do though
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