Example sentences of "as i [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray . |
| 2 | As I looked up at him he placed a steaming hot mess-tin full of what looked like Machonachie stew on the floor of the barn beside me. |
| 3 | As I looked up into his steely blue eyes I admit I did wonder what disparaging thoughts he was thinking about me . |
| 4 | As I looked up , I saw that water was beginning to slop in and trickle down the wall . |
| 5 | As long as I get up in the morning . |
| 6 | th than first thing in the morning erm whereas I , I think probably I am probably better as soon as I get up than last thing at night . |
| 7 | And as soon as I get up I say you coming ? |
| 8 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 9 | It cheers me up as I come up in the lift and stagger out blinking in the daylight . |
| 10 | As I biked up St Giles ’ yesterday afternoon I passed one of the group walking up to North Oxford . |
| 11 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 12 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 13 | The configuration of lights speed up , broaden , and throw different shadows into the car as I pull up a freeway ramp . |
| 14 | Dawn ‘ beat the twilight into flakes of fire ’ as I cycled up Gleann Meinich . |
| 15 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 16 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 17 | Dad taught me a lot as I grew up . |
| 18 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 19 | And well I remember hearing about it and and saw it probably as I grew up myself . |
| 20 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 21 | As I pick up my jacket from the Sarson 's Malt Vinegar box which I seem to have appointed as coat-rack , I pull the lid up with it . |
| 22 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 23 | As I came up out of the trough , the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier . |
| 24 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 25 | Like a young Robeson , with that tremendously wide face , yes , I saw him as I came up . |
| 26 | As I came up behind her , I saw what it was . |
| 27 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
| 28 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 29 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 30 | I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden . |