Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 2 | The popular four-piece group Starz split up at the beginning of the year . |
| 3 | Before the visit to Teesside took place Glanville went up to the Polytechnic to discuss plans for the visit , and returned to London after whit he describes as ‘ a bizarre day ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing belonging to your friend Willard matches up with the fibres we found on the dead girl . ’ |
| 5 | In The Ladybird New Testament the story is similarly altered to include a dream rather than a vision : One day Peter went up on the roof of the house where he was staying in Joppa to pray . |
| 6 | The modern day Chiswick grew up from the gradual merging of the original Chesewic with the hamlet of Little Sutton and Stronde , linked by Turnham Green and the Brentford Road from London . |
| 7 | With a steady breeze blowing , and a blue sky puffed with cotton-wool clouds , a day 's windsurfing would concentrate her mind away from him , blow the shadows away , perhaps , and if by some chance Luke turned up at the club it would be easy enough to avoid him . |
| 8 | One morning Kalchu came up from the stable with a bowl of warm milk and poured half of it into a separate container for me . |
| 9 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 10 | And although ‘ workerism ’ was on the wane by the time Hayling turned up on the Langley personnel officer 's doorstep , he earned many brownie points among the comrades by becoming a ‘ genuine ’ member of the proletariat . |
| 11 | Investing in a jump suit and hard hat Della turned up at the aerodrome and took to the skies in a plane |