Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
| 2 | When a dark shape swam up at her and blotted the dancers from her view , she smiled , began to say yes of course I 'll dance . |
| 3 | stars swam up as if to graze |
| 4 | He swam up to her and said , ‘ If you want to surf like a man you 're going to be treated like a man . ’ |
| 5 | He swam up to her . |
| 6 | And so if you swam up to somebody who was in difficulty , and you approach them from the front their automatic reaction is to throw their arms around you , do n't let them do it ! |
| 7 | A blue shape that swam up in the doorway . |
| 8 | An odour of dank river air swam up from the river . |
| 9 | There were few people about , but the noise of the engines brought figures from shops and houses and pale faces , their eyes shielded , strained up at them . |
| 10 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 11 | Darkness seeped up from the earth . |
| 12 | An explosion of methane gas which seeped up from the ground in Derbyshire 5 years ago demolished a pensioner 's house . |
| 13 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 14 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 15 | ‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there . |
| 16 | She wandered up to him . |
| 17 | And , them will survive there , but during er the Winter , starting October , you could see the face of the plantation of that was facing the sea , it all scorched up towards the end of O of er December . |
| 18 | He rose up on tiptoe , looking round for James , Allan , and the rest . |
| 19 | Walls of red brick rose up on his left like sheer cliffs . |
| 20 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 21 | The heat from the front room rose up through the floorboards so that the room , although bare , was warm . |
| 22 | She looked like a little black chattering chimney pot , for as the smoke rose up through her veils she kept up a constant conversation . |
| 23 | ‘ A vast pillar of fire rose up through the floor and decimated the display of the Nugahiro Corporation 's new range of lap-top computers ! ’ |
| 24 | Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel . |
| 25 | The bullet punched through armour plate , the tank exploded , and the arvee rose up into the air in a whirl of flame . |
| 26 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 27 | Nothing was left but a clearing in the forest and a flock of doves who rose up into the air , wheeled round , and flew off . |
| 28 | The glider rose up into the atmosphere . |
| 29 | Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky . |
| 30 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |