Example sentences of "i have [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 5 | Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So I had to put up with the , I had a really shitty cycle and then , my run was , you know okay |
| 8 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 9 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 18 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 19 | I had caught up with the advance guard of greenkeepers , and greeted the head greenkeeper , a fit-looking , lean man with a rather scholarly stoop and a trim grey beard . |
| 20 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 21 | No , hold on , and I 've turned up with the wrong one . |
| 22 | And , by the way , " he added , as if it was all part of the same subject , " I think I 've come up with the safest combination of captain and crew for your journey . |
| 23 | I 've put up with the place for nearly twenty years . ’ |
| 24 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 25 | These are n't just people I 've picked up on the street and thought , Ooh let's show some kooky S&M now ! |
| 26 | Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point . |
| 27 | where the games are getting played or I 've never seen it in a paper that I 've picked up in the morning , it 's never been in it ! |
| 28 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 29 | I have to go up to the hospital twice a week to day assessment unit , where they are doing test on the baby just to monitor its progress and see if everything is going okay . |
| 30 | I have drawn up on the attached sheet the numbers of staff required in my estimation to deal with Council Tax in the future . |