Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scanned her tense expression , his eyes crinkled up against the sun . |
| 2 | A dim lamp swung over the entrance where three steps led up into the foyer . |
| 3 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 4 | Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers . |
| 5 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 6 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 7 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 8 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 9 | After turning the sausages and prodding the briquettes again he rested his arms on the railing and looked out over Central Park , his eyes screwed up against the sun even though he was wearing a pair of prescription sunglasses . |
| 10 | The dog , after lapping a little water , went and sat down heavily beside him , eyes turned up at the portrait of itself thoughtfully , perhaps making a critical assessment of it . |
| 11 | Its omnifont recognition algorithms teamed up with the use of the dictionary have given us a recognition rate we 'd estimate at between 98% and 99% , and all without having to teach the program what any letters are , which we consider to be very good . |
| 12 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 13 | So if ordinary paper labels curled up during the manufacturing process , they would take the vinyl with them , resulting in a warped disc . |
| 14 | That is the private opportunity cost of the funds tied up in the project . |
| 15 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 16 | Safri cleaned up in the song awards , with Par Linghade judged best dance song and best cover song and Bomb The Tombi the best album . |
| 17 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 18 | Almost all schools ended up in the black in the first year . |
| 19 | Two of his brothers ended up in the House of Lords . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All their trumpets tilted up from the ground , as if together they were sounding a blast to the sky . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nails got up to the railway sidings early . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We had to halt as cartloads of bones dug up from the cemetery were taken down Paternoster Row to the charnel house . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A stream of visitors turned up at the camp . |