Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain 's 35% growth has been fuelled by its catching up from a low base , government investment policies , especially in the workstation arena . |
| 2 | When the guard came to he found himself looking up into the wild-eyed face of a wizard , who was menacing his throat with a sword . |
| 3 | Hrun kicked away and scrambled to his feet , to find himself looking up into the wild horse-face of the dragon , its nostrils distended . |
| 4 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 5 | Grant found himself looking up at an attractive dark haired nurse . |
| 6 | The gate swung outwards , and he found himself looking up at the massive head of a yawning dragon with creased cheek and jowl and a lolling red tongue . |
| 7 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 8 | She standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair . |
| 9 | As their celebrations continue more facts emerge with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing up to the final curtain . |
| 10 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 11 | Sarella gave a gasp as she found herself staring up into the thunderous face of Marc himself . |
| 12 | So a a a a as you say that the problem is that erm as this process gets under way and er i i s so , I , I think it 's , it 's not just absolute egalitarian in that everybody will get the same , I think there was an assumption that there would be enough for everybody becoming up to a middle peasant status . |
| 13 | There may be now perestroika , everybody teaming up over the Middle East problem , but we are actually at war economically with all the countries outside this country and most of them , the young people are better trained , people , and better educated , longer educated , higher standards and also at work , there is much more training at work . |
| 14 | Fancy him turning up in a snivelling little place like Bethlehem . |