Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 2 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 3 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 4 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 5 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 6 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 7 | Then I climbed up into the warm sunshine and the dry valley of Gordale Beck . |
| 8 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 9 | I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden . |
| 10 | Soon afterwards , I stocked up with the sweet-tasting water of an oasis , the banks of which were encrusted with salts and shaded by palm-trees . |
| 11 | I stared up into the kind-eyed , sallow face of Catherine of Aragon . |
| 12 | I stared up at the grey sky and the black ravens which circled above the battlements like the souls of men condemned to wander the earth forever . |
| 13 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 14 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 15 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 16 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 17 | I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti . |
| 18 | I went up to the tall , dark girl . |
| 19 | So I went up to the general manager Mr and he he sa told me certainly I can go . |
| 20 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 21 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 22 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 23 | Then , shovel under one arm and crutch under the other , I hobbled up to the top kennels . |
| 24 | After training as a navigator in SA , I travelled up to the Middle East to OTU in Palestine . |
| 25 | ‘ Jenny and I sat up until the early hours chatting . ’ |
| 26 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
| 27 | I ended up on the front fucking wheels of a pushbike |
| 28 | I hit the central barrier and he went on about fifty yards while I ended up on the hard shoulder |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |