Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] up the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 2 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 3 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 4 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 5 | Crossing the coast road , she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall . |
| 6 | It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 . |
| 7 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 8 | She walked up the smooth grassy knoll to the centre , and examined the patient . |
| 9 | She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless . |
| 10 | Passing the imposing facade of Ixmar 's wife Aufiria 's fane , she hurried up the wide paved road that led to Candlegate , a rich area where she would find the De Belving estate . |
| 11 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 12 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 13 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 14 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 15 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 16 | They went up the curving Georgian staircase to Bragg 's room , and hung their bowlers on the bentwood hat-stand . |
| 17 | They held up the bright new diesel buses and , even worse , blocked the progress of private motorists in bulbous Austins and lumpen Humbers in canyon-like city thoroughfares . |
| 18 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 19 | He moved up the tricky little wall ( the technical crux ) to the roof , and draped a thick sling over the huge pointed spike known as the Cheeseblock . |
| 20 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 21 | Well he climbed up the bloody first stair . |
| 22 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 23 | He scooped up the solid little parcel . |
| 24 | He dashed up the short front path at a run and shot through the door Meredith held open for him . |
| 25 | Again he mirrored her meanings back , and he held up the distorted black lumps that were her errors of syntax . |
| 26 | In a footnote he held up the Greek Doric style as the model for a reformed modern architecture . |
| 27 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
| 28 | Squatting down , he picked up the other five squirming bodies and stuffed them into a cloth sack . |
| 29 | Senior Sea King pilot Lt Cmdr George Wallace spoke of the shelling as he picked up the two injured men . |
| 30 | LAWRIE SMITH booked a ticket to Barcelona when he wrapped up the British Olympic selection series for the Soling keelboat place in the French Olympic Classes regatta at Hyeres . |