Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way round this conclusion is to suppose that instead of the chain of justification stretching away to infinity , it turns round on its tail and joins up with itself at some point , forming a circle . |
| 2 | The old tea pourer , Donna 's one-time school-teacher , peered up at her through rimless glasses . |
| 3 | She turned and started to walk , but he caught up with her with those lithe strides of his , and took her roughly into his arms . |
| 4 | This week The Belfast Telegraph caught up with her in Royal Avenue , where the living legend was , typically , being mobbed by fans . |
| 5 | When I finally caught up with him at Crazy Joe 's Plantation Village , he was in a resigned mood . |
| 6 | In the half-light that was not yet day , roadside trees could conceal could even be — the dreaded pursuers , caught up with him at last . |
| 7 | Tim and Lynne Littler caught up with us at this point and with little resistance from our party , insisted that we could n't leave Paris without a light lunch . |
| 8 | Well , maybe they were n't his exact words , but I expect he would have come up with something like that had he been asked for his thoughts on Carter 's ‘ Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ . |
| 9 | You know if you did n't fill it in , they would act actually catch up with you at some stage and you may erm if you had exceeded the limit be erm you know you may be issued with a demand for a cheque for X for X number of pounds for overpayment of pension . |
| 10 | And er , er , the next thing I remember was er , er being picked up by somebody off this pile of bricks and the doctor told me that it was a gas , some sort of gas has come out of it which had overpowered me like , you know . |
| 11 | You went to find him — did n't you ? — for his creditors have caught up with him at last . |
| 12 | In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’ |
| 13 | As the rim brushed her groin Sally felt a sharp sweet pleasure which seemed to shoot up inside her on silken cords to that deep core where the trickles of excitement played every time she thought of Pete . |
| 14 | Anyway , , the old shed looks well there er , I du n no why I started to look out and the cat was on his back legs with his feet like that and he was looking up at me like that ! |
| 15 | There had been a series of photographs showing Adam with a series of women , each one more gorgeous than the last , and each one looking up at him with undisguised adoration . |
| 16 | But at least she was safe from the man on the ground , who now seemed to be recovering and was looking up at her with intense fury as he rubbed the area just below his ribs . |
| 17 | Looking up at you with all that trust . |
| 18 | Yeah we could cut it into twelfths but there are only two people so they 're gon na finish up with lots of little bits are n't they if we cut it |
| 19 | She had put on her hat and coat and was about to leave when he came up to her with two bunches of violets , so that she was able to press the cigarettes into his hand while taking the flowers from him . |
| 20 | At this moment about 11 people came up to me with two dogs . |
| 21 | People came up to me with glowing faces and said , Was n't it wonderful ? |
| 22 | But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak . |
| 23 | He came up with them to Four on the first floor , Tom 's room . |
| 24 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 25 | If Winterbottom had not played much hard rugby with Headingley , then he more than made up for it in those few short months . |
| 26 | ‘ They knew what they were doing , ’ he said , ‘ cleaning up after themselves like that . |
| 27 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 28 | It was only by an act of supreme will that she was finally able to wrench her mouth from his to look up at him with angry , blazing eyes . |
| 29 | ‘ A Hollywood movie about two cops who do n't get along at first but are thrown together on a case involving drugs , foreigners , lots of fights and guns and which ends up with them respecting each other and winning . |
| 30 | I 've always liked chickens — the way they hold their heads on one side and look up at you with one eye . |