Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Miniature tidal waves swept up against the waterfront , tearing piers and jetties away , spilling over into the maze of streets , driving a human exodus before them . |
| 32 | All their trumpets tilted up from the ground , as if together they were sounding a blast to the sky . |
| 33 | Police Court trials usually included a miscellaneous collection of well-known ne'er-do-wells picked up over the weekend and arraigned on Monday morning to face drunk and disorderly charges . |
| 34 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 35 | After initial experiments with raised beds , ramps and customised tools some lateral thinkers from both groups came up with the idea of a wheelchair with a seat which could be lowered to the plants at ground level . |
| 36 | Nails got up to the railway sidings early . |
| 37 | But as the fear of invasion receded and the public outrage at the scandals of the Arandora Star and the Dunera made itself known , refugees moved up in the War Office estimation . |
| 38 | The mine captains came up from the ranks , having been tributers and tutworkers themselves . |
| 39 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 40 | Before 800AD , bones dug up in the Ohio valley are relatively poor in the heavier form of carbon . |
| 41 | We had to halt as cartloads of bones dug up from the cemetery were taken down Paternoster Row to the charnel house . |
| 42 | Here he could live in virtually complete seclusion , at a fraction of the cost it would take in northern Europe or Canada ; where the people were unconcerned as to who you were or what you did ; and where breathtaking vistas opened up for the seeing — both external and internal . |
| 43 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |
| 44 | Then on Wednesday , hearses from two funeral companies turned up at the morgue to claim the body . |
| 45 | She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems . |
| 46 | It 's not good keeping the prospectuses piled up in the office just in case a casual visitor asks for one , they need to be where people with young children regularly gather . |
| 47 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 48 | Sparks flew up from the pavement only a fraction of an inch from his father 's head . |
| 49 | HAVE you any of those Esso petrol vouchers scrunched up in the bottom of your bag ? |
| 50 | Nineteenth-century industrial settlements grew up on the north side of Bolton with the great textile boom , when wealthy mill-owners created model villages after the example of Port Sunlight ( q.v . ) . |
| 51 | ‘ An entire generation of Filipinos grew up in the shadow of dictatorship , ’ wrote Sheila Coronel of the Manila Times . |
| 52 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 53 | Our grandmothers grew up in the days when women rose at dawn , laid the sticks and lit the fire . |
| 54 | On the far side , by the window , there were plates stacked up in the sink . |
| 55 | The clouds were parting and the moon showed dimly at first when the 12-pounder gun 's crew of cooks and stewards closed up aboard the destroyer . |
| 56 | He hopes to have around 400 pubs snapped up by the end of the year . |
| 57 | For gone are the days when the used plastic cups ended up in the dustbin . |
| 58 | The shelves ended up on the tip , and the new ones were made of wood and fixed to the wall with screws and wall plugs . |
| 59 | Due to my forward speed the mat and my feet ended up under the AOC 's desk at the same time saluted , and my Wolseley sun helmet sped to the opposite corner of the room . |
| 60 | Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes . |