Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dan got up from the breakfast bar . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Each of these in turn subdivided into separate , smaller fibrils which are themselves composed of a highly organized array of myofilaments made up of the proteins actin and myosin ( Fig. 53 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening . |
| 8 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 11 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 12 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 13 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 14 | He scanned her tense expression , his eyes crinkled up against the sun . |
| 15 | Aldhelm got up from the turf on which a new and unsteady lamb was also trying to get to its feet , nuzzled by the quivering ewe . |
| 16 | A dim lamp swung over the entrance where three steps led up into the foyer . |
| 17 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 18 | Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers . |
| 19 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 20 | Carlie got up from the footstool . |
| 21 | Next , in ( 17 ) , we have a minimal property complex made up of a property extended by another property , P P , alternatively represented as in ( 18 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never eaten them , ’ Richard gazed up at the man , his clear chestnut eyes , starry with their thick lashes , open wide as he judged the amount of pathos necessary to achieve his aim . |
| 23 | Hatch straightened up from the plant box , and surveyed his handiwork for a second before looking at Cowley and saying , ‘ Maiden Lane or Memory Lane ? |
| 24 | It was expected to cost around £800 million when launched , of which foreign aid made up about a half . |
| 25 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 26 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 27 | Preparing the campsite also involved some ingenious engineering , with a large pivoted chockstone winched up on a Friend belay to create enough headroom . |
| 28 | The president got up from the chair and came round the table , his hand outstretched in the Western style . |
| 29 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |
| 30 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |