Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 2 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 3 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 4 | ‘ I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 9 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 10 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 11 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 12 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 13 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 14 | He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch . |
| 15 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 16 | Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid ! |
| 17 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 18 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 19 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 20 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 21 | So I had to put up with the , I had a really shitty cycle and then , my run was , you know okay |
| 22 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 23 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 24 | By five-thirty , I had met up with the lads and , content at seventeen miles , stooped in the twilight to hammer home the twenty-eight pegs . |
| 25 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
| 26 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 27 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 28 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 29 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 30 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |