Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not knowing then what a polyp was , I still found my eyes welling up with tears of relief . |
| 2 | My eyes filled up with water , I did n't want to stay there I wanted to be with my mum . |
| 3 | The first two days at ‘ The Pickeridge ’ I spent in my room , with my meals brought up by Ada , the housemaid , and being visited by Lady Shelley . |
| 4 | My wages went up to £40 . |
| 5 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |
| 6 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 7 | It was the same with the herring gutters that was here , I mind them working on the pier down here , and they all had their fingers tied up with Clotes There was the skill that work in this . |
| 8 | It was an unsatisfactory relationship , but their meetings made up for infrequency by their intensity . |
| 9 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 10 | Neighbours who were not so well thought of stood and watched at gun-point , while their homes went up in flames . |
| 11 | Her eyes welled up with tears of joy . |
| 12 | Her eyes lit up with understanding . |
| 13 | She had a white star , half-covered by a rough forelock , her ears pricked up with fear . |
| 14 | BE safe , not sorry , was the message from fire chiefs today as they and their crews geared up for fireworks night on Merseyside . |
| 15 | There are many people wasting their lives wrapped up in services that have been set up to meet their so-called ‘ special needs ’ . |
| 16 | However , if we choose to confront the horse , and to fight it out , the horse will always associate having its feet picked up with anger and fear , and it will always be difficult . |
| 17 | In the protracted negotiations at Munster in 1645 – 48 the French representatives had their credentials drawn up in French and always used their own language in discussion . |
| 18 | But prison officers say their procedures to pick up at risk prisoners were followed . |
| 19 | Late in 1913 he wrote on a more factual note : ‘ Futurism is not without importance , and its manifestos drawn up in France have had an influence on the terminology which is employed today amongst the most advanced painters . ’ |
| 20 | I congratulate my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister , the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor on their negotiations leading up to Maastricht and at the conference itself . |
| 21 | She opened her lips under the caress of his , found her hands reaching up to Braille the rock sculpture of his cheekbones . |
| 22 | Her hands flew up in horror then slammed down on the steering wheel . |
| 23 | Her nerve snapped and she turned rising as she did so , her hands coming up in defence . |
| 24 | ‘ It is common for parents with jobs to leave their children locked up at home with TV Globo as their only companion . ’ |
| 25 | Her eyelids flew up like window blinds wound too tightly . |
| 26 | Posterity is already evaluating Emma Sergeant 's work , adding noughts to original commissioning prices as her portraits come up for auction . |
| 27 | Video and one-way mirrors allow designers to see how their systems stand up in practice . |
| 28 | Post offices , railway stations and schools had the new , and the rest the old ; in the cottages there was friction as children and their fathers turned up for meals at different times . |
| 29 | Now their dishes make up in imagination and taste what they lack in meat . |
| 30 | Their lyrics stand up as poems , good light verse in their own right . |