Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 2 | Suffice it is to say that Woferl jumped up on the Empress 's lap , put his arms round her neck and kissed her heartily . |
| 3 | It was the next day that Lewis turned up at the door of the workshop his tools in a bag and his leather apron over his arm . |
| 4 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 5 | He has more than £50m wrapped up in the concern , via his 35% share stake , and needs to protect it . |
| 6 | They changed roles , and Lucie climbed up on the playmaster 's shoulders , his weight hardly bending Garvey 's back . |
| 7 | He has taken it in response to the pressure and fight put up by the ‘ homelands Chief Ministers ’ — Buthelezi and Co . |
| 8 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 9 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 10 | Mr. Bill Walker : I have made it clear that I would not be unhappy if Stagecoach ended up with the Strathtay area , but that I would prefer Strathtay bus company . |
| 11 | They are the public face of the secret survival of ancient belief and practice tied up with the power of the landscape . |
| 12 | The driver and fireman ran up to the inert body ; too late , the man was dead . |
| 13 | It was n't until Ronni stood up at the shore 's edge that she saw Guido standing watching her , bare feet planted in the sand . |
| 14 | The clouds were parting and the moon showed dimly at first when the 12-pounder gun 's crew of cooks and stewards closed up aboard the destroyer . |
| 15 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 16 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 17 | Sharon Hills parents John and Shiela turned up to the inquest into their daughters death — which happened last month when she was visiting egypt . |
| 18 | And Nyasha ran up to the top of the rise and saw the land and the city all below her . |
| 19 | He took off his clothes , and Isobel curled up on the bed watching him , like a little cat . |
| 20 | ‘ Anglers broke the ice to fish and diesel bubbled up to the surface . |
| 21 | The Rector of Londesborough saved the day by giving chase in his car and he and Fred caught up with the horse at the farm gate , waiting to be let in . |
| 22 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 23 | A smell of bacon and eggs wafted up from the kitchen . |
| 24 | It would be easy enough ( in theory ) to get money for Everest or K2 , but if Mick and Vic turned up at the doors of a giant multi-national with the word ‘ Ultar ’ on their portfolio , they might well be shown the corporate door . |
| 25 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 26 | They walked towards the castle , and Jessamy gazed up at the towers and battlements , and the great walls that loomed above them . |
| 27 | The strength of the economy has been founded on small family businesses and farms built up over the years by hard work and self-denial . |
| 28 | A great cry compounded of rage , sorrow , hatred and vituperation went up from the town walls as the colourful company under the Plantagenet Leopards turned and rode back towards the castle , leaving the slight jerking figure to its dance of death . |
| 29 | In response to the massive changes that were taking place throughout Germany a whole series of patriotic clubs and societies grew up in the 1890s . |
| 30 | SAD TIME : Woody and Mia broke up during the movie |