Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 32 | Paul , you looked up at the times . |
| 33 | Then , standing on tiptoe , she reached up into the eaves where the agricultural tools were stored , and pulled out two wooden rakes , karasos , and two lengths of hemp-fibre rope . |
| 34 | It was dark when they got outside , and , walking silently beside him , she stared up at the stars , and gave an unconscious little sigh . |
| 35 | We , who grew up on the terraces , had it by right . |
| 36 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
| 37 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
| 38 | She looked up at the advertisements above the windows . |
| 39 | She looked up from the minutes she was collating . |
| 40 | She went up on the hills or down to the beach . |
| 41 | As her opening music rang out , she ran up to the wings , her spirits considerably buoyed up by knowing her father was in the audience , and by the fact that she 'd felt a tiny but unmistakable buzz of excitement on hearing those familiar chords . |
| 42 | She pointed up to the curtains on the front window . |
| 43 | And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there . |
| 44 | Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’ |
| 45 | A participant commented : ‘ I liked the last day when we teamed up with the professionals . |
| 46 | That lunchtime we walked up to the shops . |
| 47 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 48 | As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window . |
| 49 | We went up to the Downs and at least I stayed in the saddle , and felt indeed a new sense of being at home there , of being at ease . |
| 50 | But when we looked up into the trees , we could see their dreys ; untidy rounded twiggy ‘ nests ’ tucked into forks between branch and trunk . |
| 51 | He was n't the only one picked up by the police . |
| 52 | Every time she was about to put a foot on the floor she suddenly found herself tucked up under the bedclothes again . |
| 53 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 54 | Over the moor they went until , at last , they caught up with the hounds . |
| 55 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 56 | Every month they drove up into the hills , their sheet folded neatly in the trunk , their lust , by contrast , scarcely containable . |
| 57 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |
| 58 | They climbed up into the bales . |
| 59 | They were ugly and ungainly , but necessary , Blackadder thought , as they sprang up like the heads of the Hydra , two to solve in the place of one solved . |
| 60 | There was a soft double-thump as they piled up on the panels . |