Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like .
2 But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end .
3 ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’
4 She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs .
5 A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge .
6 The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives .
7 I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp .
8 Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls .
9 I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness .
10 I gazed up at the building .
11 As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky .
12 In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau .
13 I need my to go up in a minute .
14 ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ?
15 Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion .
16 Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor .
17 I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded .
18 And I got up on the wall right ?
19 Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend .
20 And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no !
21 I was quite stunned , because in the beginning I was struggling with it — all those regions around top A — and in the end , in Resurrection , I got up to a D above that , without going into falsetto , which was quite a little crusade for me .
22 I got up out the chair and er went out the front door and I said to her for God 's sake it 's Sunday !
23 That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’
24 I got up in the night and took fish out of your barrels , Harry Pascoe , 'cos I could n't abide the thought of being wed to you , do you hear me ?
25 Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning .
26 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
27 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
28 So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef !
29 It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire !
30 I got up from the table .
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