Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 2 | TYCOON Richard Branson yesterday came up with the Christmas present for the person who has everything — the chance to pilot a jumbo jet . |
| 3 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 4 | Curbishley then stepped up for the intermediate girls ' 300 metres hurdles and proceeded to win by 25 metres in a time of 43.9 secs , 1.6 seconds inside the Division Five record . |
| 5 | A young girl briefly glanced up from the action-cube she was playing . |
| 6 | KEROSENE , fierce guitar quintet recently snapped up by the Dead Dead Good label , take time out from recording their debut EP with Neds/MC4 producer Jessica Corcoran to play Colchester Hippodrome on September 14 . |
| 7 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 8 | Robert then went up to the staffroom door and listened . |
| 9 | Willis half got up from the table . |
| 10 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 11 | But Tandri now came up with the bright idea of charging an exorbitant additional fee for every island we needed to call at en route . |
| 12 | ( Derek heartily spoke up for the bitter they pulled , too . ) |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll bet ‘ e could n't knock the cream off a custard puddin' , ’ said Tommy , but this time his voice did carry , and to the instructor 's dismay , Trentham immediately leapt up into the ring and said , ‘ We 'll see about that . ’ |
| 14 | Her father never came up to the nursery floor . |
| 15 | KEROSENE , West Didsbury outfit recently snapped up by the Dead Dead Good label , play |
| 16 | As she stood up in her stirrups , stretching over Hermia 's nearside shoulder to hit the forehand , her right leg automatically swivelled up in the air . |
| 17 | Dunlop also ended up with the fastest lap with a speed of 110.64mph on the last lap . |
| 18 | A major row now blew up between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of the Environment . |
| 19 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 20 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 21 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |
| 22 | Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window . |
| 23 | Gaughan again popped up on the right wing to centre for Nick Cusack to force Stewart into another diving save , then the impressive Andy Toman charged on to a Steve Mardenborough flick , and fired just wide with the keeper beaten . |
| 24 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 25 | The second Lord Redesdale once stood up in the House of Lords to argue that ‘ denial of the hereditary principle is a direct blow at the Crown . |
| 26 | The two youngsters found the going much easier this time , with the way ahead lit up by the bobbing light of their new-found ally 's powerful flashlight . |
| 27 | Follow That Camel was filmed in May , but Gerald Thomas still woke up in the morning to find snow all over their Fort Zuassantneuf set . |