Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
| 2 | I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform . |
| 3 | The heat from the front room rose up through the floorboards so that the room , although bare , was warm . |
| 4 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 5 | As she did there was a screech of brakes and another car drew up outside the cottage opposite , causing her to glance up . |
| 6 | Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again . |
| 7 | Oh certainly , certainly , erm boys grow up on the whole fairly secure in the knowledge that they have both work cells , occupational cells and also that they 'll be able to have families . |
| 8 | Susan 's eyes grew wide as Maggie told her about her ride on the telegraph pole , ending up at The Haven where she 'd been rescued by Bryce . |
| 9 | With a sharp pang of defeat , he noticed Benny dive headlong through the weakened window , ending up in the water below with a huge splash . |
| 10 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 11 | The small village was completely silent as the Marines who had landed at the small fishing jetty moved up into the plateau where the houses were built . |
| 12 | He moved up through the system rapidly enough to make his mark without looking flashy . |
| 13 | Hurry up with the scissors Pauly . |
| 14 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 15 | ‘ You have come up from the coast then ? |
| 16 | It 's J 's birthday on April 2nd & they are having a party ( at last ! ) so I 'll catch up on the news then — they are v. seldom at Gayfield St these days , so I never see them . |
| 17 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 18 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 19 | But her remarks in America would subsequently be picked up by the papers here — so she would have two platforms . |
| 20 | The efforts of the government and the reversal of the alliance with the intellectuals failed to keep out a trickle of French newspapers : contraband books were picked up by the Inquisition all over Spain between 1790 and 1792 . |
| 21 | County property manager Ian Gould said there was no pressure on the group to come up with the money immediately . |
| 22 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 23 | Now unit six is very likely to come up in the exam so when you do this test for Monday you are in effect preparing for the exam . |
| 24 | He squared up to the putt once . |
| 25 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
| 26 | One of the first questions you get asked of anybody when they first come on a training course here , er , certainly a sort of foundation course , is that somebody writes up on the board there T N T , and says what does that stand for ? |
| 27 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 28 | ‘ The breaks are probably where the mobile is moving from one cell to another and he is searching through to catch up with the conversation again in the next cell . |
| 29 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 30 | Applications may , however , be considered up to the date when a course begins , provided that not all places have been filled . |