Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lost speed and pulled up outside the kiosk with a squeal of brakes . |
| 2 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 3 | They travelled up the goods line from Blackburn waited for a clear road at Hellifield Junction , got onto the long drag and worked up to the summit . |
| 4 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 5 | The old cheese presses which had lain dusty in the stable loft were brought down with difficulty on account of their immense weight and set up on the flagged floor . |
| 6 | A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants . |
| 7 | There , he 'd worked for the Corps ' news service , been wounded , gone home to study journalism at college and ended up with the Associated Press . |
| 8 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 9 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 10 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 11 | Here , in an empty silence , he unpacked his bicycle panniers and went up to the pantry where the bulk of the xerox squatted amongst unsavoury tea-towels beside a tea-stained sink . |
| 12 | The F40 swung into the entrance and pulled up outside the terminal . |
| 13 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 14 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 15 | Morthen kicked the wild horse and galloped up to the earth wall . |
| 16 | Marian sat back on her heels and smiled up into the old woman 's face . |
| 17 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 18 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 19 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 20 | The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks . |
| 21 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 22 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 23 | His face darkened , and as he strode grimly towards her she stumbled hastily to her feet and backed up against the wall . |
| 24 | I took the tube to Carnaby Street , walked past the colourful street bazaars and ended up in the office , heart almost in mouth . |
| 25 | Very flat on the bottom and turned up to the bow and that 's what the salmon fishers used in the in the rivers for pulling their nets in and fishing salmon on the . |
| 26 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 27 | The incident of the Karin B , a ship carrying toxic wastes from Europe , illegally imported to Nigeria , which could not find a home and landed up on the south coast of England in the summer of 1987 , demonstrated that millions of tonnes of highly toxic waste are being shipped around the globe . |
| 28 | She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again , one arm linked through Plummer 's . |
| 29 | The Mercedes burst into flames and broke up with the burning wreckage being thrown among the spectators . |
| 30 | He retreated to the deepest part and stood up to the chest in filth , weeping . |