Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blinking in the sunshine that fell on his face , Tug swam up out of the horrors of the darkness . |
| 2 | No-one lives up here in the cleft of the White Kielder Burn . |
| 3 | Before Anabelle could learn more , however , they heard a splash in the canal and turned to see a little brown head bobbing up out of the water . |
| 4 | In fact , today 's activities had offered some hours of reprieve from thoughts of him — at least until such time as they were due to meet up later in the afternoon . |
| 5 | The rugged mountains rose up straight from the river banks and were shaded in greens and browns with gashes of copper where erosion has taken its toll . |
| 6 | Wild brown hills of heather and bracken rose up steeply behind the house , just beyond a red-jewelled fuchsia hedge and a grove of mysterious scrub oaks . |
| 7 | Rich raw smells of tar , rotting excrement , spices and brine rose up along with the sight of ship masts , looped sails , small boats beached on the first mud of the receding tide , sailors in striped breeches and greasy caps leaning on the wooden railings , others arm in arm on their way to the taverns , piled kegs and crates , winches , the last of the horsedrawn sleds and — a gathering knot of people beyond a bonded warehouse . |
| 8 | Guido drew up abruptly at the side of the road . |
| 9 | He charged up out of the canal and shook himself , splattering water everywhere . |
| 10 | We 'll tie up just beyond the lock , just in front of those other boats . ’ |
| 11 | This does not tie up entirely with the records of Hal Far , which noted that three Fulmars went up , and that one was damaged and the pilot slightly wounded . |
| 12 | They completed a circular walk through the woods , tramping through leaves and bracken and ending up back at the minibus where Sybil announced it was time to go back to Conway House for lunch . |
| 13 | If you charged Musicians Union rates no one hired you : if you did n't , your fellow musicians hated you : and to stand up there on a platform for four hours disappointing a room full of people was not his idea of living . |
| 14 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 15 | If she did n't get some decent sleep soon , she 'd be in severe danger of cracking up completely under the strain . |
| 16 | And he moved up here after the war , World War One . |
| 17 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 18 | One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top . |
| 19 | Something come up there onto the brink of the gulf , |
| 20 | So , I 'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get , they 'll call in and say you have n't come up there for a week ! |
| 21 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 22 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 23 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 24 | Much of the mercury that escapes in to the soil and the air and in to the water , finishes up here in the rivers , and there it reacts with naturally occurring compounds to form a compound called methyl mercury which is far more dangerous to man than is mercury itself . |
| 25 | She hummed a tune and pretended to care about tasting a fragment of fish she 'd pinched up out of the herby broth . |
| 26 | A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic . |
| 27 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 28 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 29 | The largest summering group is found at Beachy Head , where up to five were noted prospecting in 1961 , and numbers built up steadily to a maximum of 38 apparent pairs in 1972 . |
| 30 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |