Example sentences of "it [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was this one for twenty five to thirty people and then there was another one for say forty or fifty and then it zoomed up to like a hundred . |
| 2 | It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance . |
| 3 | It fluttered up and down on her shoulders when the machine slowed . |
| 4 | But one day in late summer , when I was pointing the otter out to my passengers , and as usual it got up to move out of sight , I saw to my surprise that it was followed by two cubs ! |
| 5 | ‘ And that one ‘ undred was only because the grahnd sloped like the north face of Iverest of ‘ e ‘ ad only to tap the ball and it got up faster speed than any fielder . ’ |
| 6 | We have n't really er when it got up to the bigger businesses we used |
| 7 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 8 | Er we 're going to er get it drafted up and er we have some money in the , we have some money in our budget , for a gift , and it seems to me appropriate erm that the gift that we might make to Cheskevod is the s trading charter which we can get for the money that we 've budgeted er written by a calligrapher who I 've already contacted , who said that they can do it erm well , for that sort of price , in both English and Czech . |
| 9 | Informed sources say that Texas Instruments Inc had Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunOS Unix running on the superscalar Viking Sparc a long time ago , but when schedules for the long overdue part began to slip , it clammed up , leaving the grapevine to hum with negative vibes . |
| 10 | It rode up and down his face , his eyes and nose , and pressed against his lips . |
| 11 | She saw herself , her head a foam of lacy white like the shining tumbleweed caught in the evening light as it floats through the air , handed on to the bar stool , her little feet — her good point — showing beneath the hem of her skirt where it rode up as she adjusted herself . |
| 12 | rocks at once and ever It flung up |
| 13 | It swirled up above my waist . |
| 14 | Headed back up by to , hook ball , looking for , gets his head underneath and it 's just over the top of the bar , he got the full force of his head beneath that ball and it looped up and over the top of er an anxious looking Paul crossbar . |
| 15 | The Clinton camp had promised the Election Watch '92 party would be like no political rally ever seen and it lived up to its billing . |
| 16 | Well , I can honestly say it lived up to every good word , every tribute , for despite the event being played out in an unrelenting , warm , monsoon-like downpour , with the playing area akin to one great mud-wrestling arena , it was a superb spectacle . |
| 17 | Until , that is , it lived up to its original name once too often ! |
| 18 | He made a model to test his ideas and it lived up to his expectations . |
| 19 | In the darkness and wet it lived up to its evil reputation . |
| 20 | If it lived up to its name , she thought , it should stick out like a sore thumb among the warm , yellowish stone of the other buildings . |
| 21 | Shafts of bright sunlight pierced the smoke as it welled up from the eaves and spread across the roof in a fine blue film. , Kāli came out into the doorway with a plate of puris and a small bowl of oil . |
| 22 | It welled up , reclaiming its rightful position in the hit parade of the senses : No . |
| 23 | So I bent down to clear it and gradually it crept up me legs to me knees , What 's the matter lad ? |
| 24 | It crept up on you quietly |
| 25 | As L & Y shed No. 17 it housed up to 40 locomotives including LYR 4-4-0s , 2-4-2 tanks , 2-6-2 tanks and Dreadnought 4-6-0s for working the passenger traffic to Preston Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 26 | To their left it led up into the trees . |
| 27 | Oh yeah we walked past park cos he asked me if I wanted to go on swings and it led up to his back gate , well , you 've never seen me put a sigh of relief on me face , I went |
| 28 | What the Paris show lacked in new cars , it made up for with intrigue and imagination , personality and politics . |
| 29 | It made up one of the most satisfying compositions of all American stations . |
| 30 | But what it lost in architectural refinement , it made up in staggering scale . |