Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 2 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 3 | Every time she was about to put a foot on the floor she suddenly found herself tucked up under the bedclothes again . |
| 4 | The owners say they came up with the idea first . |
| 5 | ‘ Teachers began to extend their role as educators to the entire community , instead of keeping it closed up in the classroom , ’ says Rafael Cuello of FECODE . |
| 6 | is the aim , what , I mean somebody came up with the aim , in actual fact , despite whatever else you might be doing , whatever politics were behind it , the aim was to prevent AIDS no matter what you were doing , and not to have any kind of prejudice against what you were doing as long as the aim |
| 7 | Suddenly the alarm bell sounded and hastily dressing I rushed up to the bridge . |
| 8 | But Belinda says they ended up in the far from deserted capital of Rarotonga . |
| 9 | This does mean , of course , that there is no control over the model 's yaw axis ( rudder to you fixed-wing flyers ) during the descent , although the natural weathercock effect of the fuselage will keep it lined up in the direction of flight . |
| 10 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 11 | During a sojourn in Northumbria one of these ‘ academic high-flyers ’ remained implacably ‘ not one of us ’ , and I heard him summed up in the following terms : |
| 12 | The guard who had brought them went up beside the chair , knelt and spoke quietly to Bruce in a language Corbett could not understand and guessed that it was probably Gaelic , a language totally alien to him . |
| 13 | After my men had rested we climbed up to the road , and set off on what proved to be a very long twenty-mile march to the forest Rest House at Haira Khan . |
| 14 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 15 | I needed her cheered up in the office . |
| 16 | We believe they started up in the mid-1930s , but by 1970 seemed to have closed down . |
| 17 | We rode under another arch , guarded by serjeants-at-arms wearing the royal arms of England ; great iron gates were flung open and we passed through these into the inner bailey , stopping before the great four-towered keep which soared up to the skies . |
| 18 | Dot felt herself gathered up from the kitchen floor and Mr Brown 's face came into view , kindly and familiar . |
| 19 | You are not supposed to leave rubbish behind for the next occupants to cope with , although you can leave it bagged up outside the door for the dustmen to take later . |
| 20 | I think I grew up with the idea that disablement or illness was inevitable , that drugging was inevitable and that maybe being locked up or cut open was inevitable . |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't the joke , it was the ritual — to get himself psyched up for the performance . ’ |
| 22 | In ( 26 ) , the main verb manage denotes what led up to the realization of the infinitive or , better , what put the support in a position to realize it . |
| 23 | He said I went up to the pub he says , here 's this bloody mate of mine playing piano , he says he 's got all my gear on ! |
| 24 | and cos I just left it screwed up on the floor last night and then well I walked out the door without my skirt . |
| 25 | Just as we were leaving he turned up in the hallway . |
| 26 | A computerised machine was implanted in his chest last November but Mrs Priestley said it packed up at the end of last month and he was taken into hospital . |
| 27 | ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet . |