Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] up [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 2 | With Lissa 's money I picked up his tabs . |
| 3 | And with those echoes ringing in my ears I booked up my day — and contemplated my fate . |
| 4 | Whilst the ladies sat in the pavilion and the knights and their squires stood at their stations I took up my position at the serving table . |
| 5 | On one occasion I screwed up my courage to ask if I could come in at 9 p.m. instead , at which Harold looked puzzled and asked why . |
| 6 | At the station I pick up my other parcel from Left Luggage , and toss it in a holdall . |
| 7 | So it was naturally with great affection and nostalgia that as an adult I laced up my boots on a damp October morning at the starting point in the station car park at Bridge of Orchy , in preparation to find out what really lurked at the top of Beinn Dorain . |
| 8 | Back in the boiler-room with the ten-gallon bags I roll up my sleeves and rummage in heaps of bloody lint and plaster , cracked phials and syringes , crushed cultures . |
| 9 | Meehan , at the time I took up his case , had had three solicitors , all from Glasgow : Joseph Beltrami for his trial , then Ross Harper and later Leonard Murray . |
| 10 | To save time I make up my float rigs beforehand and put them on pole winders . |
| 11 | On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there . |