Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That last hedge you jumped , ’ her father said , breaking another seemingly endless silence as he stopped and stared up at the facade of the great house . |
| 2 | The night was cold and black but when he stopped and looked up between the black overhanging gables of the houses , he was pleased to see the clouds beginning to break up . |
| 3 | He stopped and looked up at the tangle of gaunt branches above him . |
| 4 | The City and the Grassroots argued , on the other hand , that successful urban social movements must confront state domination ( the tendency being for such domination to be centralised and tied up with the interests of monopoly capital ) and recognise the nature of local culture and experience . |
| 5 | The servants woke , and two gentlemen , who were passing in the road below , stopped and looked up at the house . |
| 6 | He took them out , stopped and stared up at the ravens cawing raucously against the blue sky . |
| 7 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 8 | LIFEBOATMEN went into action this afternoon when a raft overturned and broke up during the annual Merseyside Police charity race on the Mersey . |
| 9 | It began as greed to steal and ended up at the point where they really were n't concerned about who they shot or why . |
| 10 | I swivelled and strode up to the end of a passage . |
| 11 | When they had gone , Peskova turned and looked up at the house again . |
| 12 | He turned and looked up into the scaly horse face above him . |
| 13 | They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch . |
| 14 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 15 | The house is seized by the demolition contractors , its park invaded and churned up by the tractors and trailers of the timber merchant . |
| 16 | Patrick nodded and went up to the front door . |
| 17 | The names of the gold winners were not known until the judges ' scores , which had been sealed , were opened and added up on the night . |
| 18 | She sat back on her heels and watched with pleasure as the flames surged and roared and the twigs sparked and crackled up into the wide opening of the chimney . |
| 19 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 20 | Ras Makonnen governed Harar until his death in 1906 and there his son Tafari was born and grew up under the enlightened administration of his eminent father ; he was thirteen when his father died . |
| 21 | Many young people like myself who were born and grew up on the flat albeit slightly rolling prairies , sometimes feel a yearning for the mountains and the sea , and I was no exception . |
| 22 | Both were born and grew up in the East End of Glasgow . |
| 23 | The greens were crudely protected and kept up by the Artisans . |
| 24 | It seemed another play was about to be abandoned but he finally arrived and leapt up to the platform to make a rather more dignified ‘ Entry into Jerusalem ’ . |
| 25 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 26 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
| 27 | ‘ We had been drinking and went up to the bedroom . |
| 28 | The deep , concerned voice broke through the dark haze of unconsciousness , and she blinked and stared up at the shadowy image of Guy Sterne 's face , bending over her . |
| 29 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 30 | She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow . |