Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 2 | Due to my forward speed the mat and my feet ended up under the AOC 's desk at the same time saluted , and my Wolseley sun helmet sped to the opposite corner of the room . |
| 3 | As Frankenstein 's gaze had recently done , my gaze turned up to the ceiling , beyond which lay the laboratory — with all its gruesome secrets now accessible to me ! |
| 4 | we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air . |
| 5 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 6 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 7 | The red of my anger bubbled up like the rosy orange juice squeezed by the vendors ' machines in the main street in our village . |
| 8 | My mother looked up from the sewing machine . |
| 9 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 10 | A civilian judge investigating the case died on Nov. 19 when her car blew up in the capital , Santiago . |
| 11 | So when her car drew up outside the refuge house on Tuesday there was n't a soul around . |
| 12 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 13 | All their trumpets tilted up from the ground , as if together they were sounding a blast to the sky . |
| 14 | Ashley was balanced on the edge of the skip with her arms stretching unsuccessfully down and her bottom stuck up in the air when , from the dark , smelly depths , she heard a car door slam . |
| 15 | Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name . |
| 16 | For thousands of children who spend their days locked up in the shanty towns while their parents work , the streets offer freedom and escape from domestic violence as well as a springboard to prostitution or petty crime . |
| 17 | Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body . |
| 18 | When their ball ended up on the roof of the Bentley Road Health Centre , the 12 year-old clambered up to try to get it . |
| 19 | Their taxi pulled up outside The Anabaptist Reform Church and Felix Henderson McMurdo climbed out . |
| 20 | Her father looked up from the newspaper and nodded . |
| 21 | In the morning her father arrived up in the nursery . |
| 22 | Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel . |
| 23 | Ellwood yanked , and the back of her skull slammed up against the bedhead . |
| 24 | Her chin stuck up into the air . |
| 25 | It looked perfectly human , dressed in a grey , well-cut suit and black tie , its collar turned up against the cold , its hands thrust into its pockets . |
| 26 | After a few minutes she bent her head and dropped a kiss lightly on his ankle , and then her hand slid up under the leg of the leathers and sensuously kneaded the firm muscle at the back of his calf . |
| 27 | Roger Pringle , director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust , signs the first letter for the Stratford-on-Avon Group at their stall set up in the town centre . |
| 28 | Her stomach edged up over the waistband of her slacks . |
| 29 | Hunting , disturbance , and pesticide residues had all played their part ; but the major culprits were river boards and their successors which scoured the banks of undergrowth in which otters lay up during the day , and felled the mighty riverside trees , such as ash and sycamore , in whose buttress roots otters made their holts . |
| 30 | This was fine , but solid evidence will have to be provided that the scene in which Palin woke up on the Orient Express to the knock of brioches at the door was the real thing . |