Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pron] [verb] up the " in BNC.

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1 We crowed with pleasure as we rushed up the remaining feet to the top and , in the last dregs of daylight , hastened back across the lonely moor to the car , Mullion , and a well earned pint .
2 Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope .
3 Senior Sea King pilot Lt Cmdr George Wallace spoke of the shelling as he picked up the two injured men .
4 The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith .
5 The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver .
6 So get into the habit of really looking at the viewfinder picture as you line up the shot .
7 Place a greaseband round the trunk of apple trees to catch the wingless female winter moth as it crawls up the tree from the soil in an attempt to lay its eggs .
8 A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before .
9 I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture .
10 Miss Harker was a little out of breath as she rolled up the petition .
11 The Rev John Boocock said he was looking forward to acting the David Dimbleby role as he gives up the regular ‘ sermon slot ’ for a full interview in which he will try and investigate the relationship between the church and education .
12 She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace .
13 Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ .
14 The trip was hazardous , as bilge-water created a stability problem and the Coastguard searchlight was now a hindrance as it lit up the flying spray .
15 The engine of the bus protested bitterly and the close air filled with the heavy smell of petrol as they started up the steep brae .
16 George was frowning in thought as they clattered up the prison-like stone steps to his set .
17 ’ Gertrude lowered her voice as she yielded up the spiciest morsel of her story .
18 It was peaceful enough now but there was menace in the heaving swell and a chill in the evening air as we tan up the east coast of Shetland .
19 Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent .
20 The following day it was revealed that Bering had chipped a bone in a knee during the race , but such was the power of his acceleration as he took up the running that he could hardly have been affected until the very final stages .
21 Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak .
22 Our conversation , previously animated , took on a dogged silence as we climbed up the final leg .
23 She preserved a dignified silence as she gathered up the trailing dressing-gown in one hand and kept the other on the rail attached to the wall on one side of the staircase .
24 ‘ There was a lot to do with telephones , ’ says Ian , ‘ like you could turn down the stereo as you picked up the phone ! ’
25 The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier .
26 The cavalry officer pushed a hand through his long golden hair as he ran up the house steps .
27 Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin .
28 For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney .
29 The most prominent , due west of the village of Lescun as you look up the valley , is the more or less pyramidal Pic d'Anie , of 8,200 feet , the first or most westerly of the major Pyrenean summits ; it is claimed by the Basques as their one high Pyrenee , the home of wild goats and the legendary source of storms .
30 ‘ Do n't fancy marching in this heat , ’ remarked the driver as he started up the engine and we sped off in the direction of the Orne bridges .
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