Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 2 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 3 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 4 | There was a guitar on the table , and a frilled black silk shirt hanging up behind the door . |
| 5 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 6 | ‘ Do I have your permission to go up to the belvedere and look around ? ’ |
| 7 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 8 | Gary is eating a heaped bowl of cornflakes in the kitchen , while reading Home Computer propped up against the milk bottle and listening via the hall and two open doors to a record by UB40 playing at maximum volume on the music centre in the lounge . |
| 9 | To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening . |
| 10 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 11 | Blood-sugar level goes up on the digestion of food . |
| 12 | He was close , his powerful , bare chest pressing up against the towelling of her robe ; she could almost feel the anger pumping around his body . |
| 13 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 14 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 15 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 16 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 17 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 18 | Children , trapped in the car of an innocent driver caught up in the crash . |
| 19 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 20 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 21 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 22 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 23 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 24 | He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside . |
| 25 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 26 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 27 | Where the plaintiff claims continuing loss the judge has to decide the issue by reference to interest on the loss calculated up to the date of payment in . |
| 28 | Next , in ( 17 ) , we have a minimal property complex made up of a property extended by another property , P P , alternatively represented as in ( 18 ) . |
| 29 | While she was deciding whether to support the Denver Broncos or the Pittsburgh Pederasts ( whatever ) , I sneaked into the bedroom and nearly had a heart attack to find a three-foot Paddington Bear propped up on the pillow . |
| 30 | It was expected to cost around £800 million when launched , of which foreign aid made up about a half . |