Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how or why it worked , but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat . |
| 2 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 3 | The name of the game , ‘ Grandmother 's Footsteps ’ is already a hint : the young and fit creeping up on the old , the halt and the lame . |
| 4 | These advanced techniques involve partnering up with a fellow student and following a step-by-step routine of attack , defence and counter-attack . |
| 5 | He had borrowed the ledger one night and read how a member of the Longford militia came galloping up on a foam-flecked horse to the doors of Carewscourt , yelling that the French and Irish had scattered Lake 's army to the four winds and that they were coming south and for everyone to flee , flee , flee if they valued their lives … . |
| 6 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 7 | The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door . |
| 8 | I do n't remember waking up with the blinding realization that it was time to go : it was more like a very gradual awareness that there simply was n't an alternative . |
| 9 | There were no trees and the nearest defining hedge was a quarter of a mile away , beyond a desert of sugar beet , its squat green leaves hugging the soil as though unwilling to risk rising up into the wide air . |
| 10 | He requires covering up in a strongly-run race to utilise his formidable finishing acceleration to maximum effect , and connections have taken the precaution of declaring a pacemaker in Wharf . |
| 11 | Have you ever thought what sort of a picture you 'll make coming up before a prospective employer ? |
| 12 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 13 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 14 | Blue magnesium flares went spiralling up into the chilly night . |
| 15 | We kept spiralling up towards a high point on the ridge , and when we reached it there was a lodge , perched improbably like a ski-lift station . |
| 16 | Weary constituency and trade union delegates , queuing for a cup of tea and a sandwich , constantly risk ending up with a signed copy of someone 's memoirs . |
| 17 | She remembered waking up in a long room filled with covered beds ; knocking a uniformed man to the ground ; taking his gun and running . |
| 18 | It means getting up in the early hours to be ready to board a coach at around 6.30am that will transport them to the South Coast , then bring them back again , arriving home at around midnight . |
| 19 | ( It is also remarkable how commonly ideas similar to his have kept re-surfacing up to the present day , often without any apparent awareness on the part of their authors that Schleiermacher had already developed them , or that the subsequent movement of theology was to expose serious inadequacies in them . ) |
| 20 | Joseph said glancing up at the serious young man . |
| 21 | By now they were in the square , and stood gazing up at the gilded splendour of the cathedral 's spire and turrets , bright in the low November sun . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose you want me to go first , ’ said Caspar as they stood looking up at the open window , which was grimy and smeary , but much lower than the other windows . |