Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 2 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 4 | The Sheikh 's car pulled up outside the hotel where his meeting was to take place . |
| 5 | The sparrows twittered and fluttered under the eaves , and the sound of children 's laughter floated up from the pool down the hill . |
| 6 | ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems . |
| 7 | Rudakov 's body surged up over the table , his arm snatched at the collar of Holly 's tunic , pulled him up from his chair . |
| 8 | The warning occurred after Puddephat 's name came up at the inquest into the death of an attractive flame-haired student , Melanie Gandell . |
| 9 | A seal 's head bobbed up from the waves and Angus was pulling on his oars , heaving the skiff back to the shore . |
| 10 | This boy 's uncle 's firm ended up in the clutches of Guy Sterne 's company , and they were annihilated ! ’ |
| 11 | Victorine 's voice issued up from the garden below the windows , demanding to know where they were . |
| 12 | Only when the mustard-coloured decorator 's van pulled up outside the wrought-iron gates of Ali Christie 's house in Harrow-on-the-Hill had Shamlou 's heart slowed its thudding beat . |
| 13 | There was an item on a big drugs haul in Seattle and then the President 's face came up on the screen . |
| 14 | Sid 's face lit up at the sight of her . |
| 15 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 17 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 18 | The 750 also has a larger bench surface , 29in long and 13in wide ( with the narrower , 4–3/4in jaw closed up to the wider 8–1/4in one ) and it will grip wider objects , as the vice jaws can be spaced further apart . |
| 19 | The local RCM committees followed up in the wake of evacuation , but this was too late for orthodox children arriving at their billets on the evening of Friday , 1 September . |