Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 32 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 33 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 34 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 35 | Then , shovel under one arm and crutch under the other , I hobbled up to the top kennels . |
| 36 | After training as a navigator in SA , I travelled up to the Middle East to OTU in Palestine . |
| 37 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 38 | ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’ |
| 39 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
| 40 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 41 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 42 | As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’ |
| 43 | I ended up on the front fucking wheels of a pushbike |
| 44 | I hit the central barrier and he went on about fifty yards while I ended up on the hard shoulder |
| 45 | The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park . |
| 46 | There was a small garden in front of the house , and she hurried along the crazy-paving path which led up to the gabled front porch . |
| 47 | ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem . |
| 48 | Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney . |
| 49 | Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support . |
| 50 | The British presence was much more persistent and important during the long negotiations which led up to the Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 . |
| 51 | This appeal concerns the four younger children , although the two elder boys played a part in the events which led up to the present situation . |
| 52 | The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from |
| 53 | But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up . |
| 54 | Lots of firms which grew up in the eighties have collapsed leaving debts unpaid and it 's very hard for the rest of us |
| 55 | Around the walls were shelves which stretched up to the blackened ceiling , bearing more rolls of vellum . |
| 56 | It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market , an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle . |
| 57 | Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut . |
| 58 | You got up in the early morning and helped in the farm , milked the cows , fed my cows and calves and looked the pigs , and then you 'd hens and chickens and the pet lambs and things like that . |
| 59 | The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study . |
| 60 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |