Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 2 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 3 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 4 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 5 | Dan got up from the breakfast bar . |
| 6 | There was a guitar on the table , and a frilled black silk shirt hanging up behind the door . |
| 7 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 8 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 9 | ‘ Do I have your permission to go up to the belvedere and look around ? ’ |
| 10 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 11 | Gary is eating a heaped bowl of cornflakes in the kitchen , while reading Home Computer propped up against the milk bottle and listening via the hall and two open doors to a record by UB40 playing at maximum volume on the music centre in the lounge . |
| 12 | Philippa got up from the chair she had brought into the kitchen , went to take the cloth from Lee 's lap , decided against it , and started to wipe up the insidious liquid with tissues . |
| 13 | To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening . |
| 14 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 15 | Blood-sugar level goes up on the digestion of food . |
| 16 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 17 | He was close , his powerful , bare chest pressing up against the towelling of her robe ; she could almost feel the anger pumping around his body . |
| 18 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 19 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 20 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 21 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 22 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 23 | Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ? |
| 24 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 25 | WITH ONLY 48 hours to come up with the cash , Michael Knighton 's £20m take-over bid for Manchester United is back on course following a High Court ruling that gives him leave to put together a funding package . |
| 26 | Children , trapped in the car of an innocent driver caught up in the crash . |
| 27 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 28 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 29 | Combine all that with a superb sunshine record , oodles of local bonhomie by both day and night , and we think you 'll agree Seefeld adds up to an Eagle of a holiday ! |
| 30 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |