Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 2 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 3 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 4 | Here , in an empty silence , he unpacked his bicycle panniers and went up to the pantry where the bulk of the xerox squatted amongst unsavoury tea-towels beside a tea-stained sink . |
| 5 | Marian sat back on her heels and smiled up into the old woman 's face . |
| 6 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 7 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 8 | His face darkened , and as he strode grimly towards her she stumbled hastily to her feet and backed up against the wall . |
| 9 | I took the tube to Carnaby Street , walked past the colourful street bazaars and ended up in the office , heart almost in mouth . |
| 10 | The Mercedes burst into flames and broke up with the burning wreckage being thrown among the spectators . |
| 11 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 12 | Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed . |
| 13 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 14 | The empty restaurant lay in linen-and-silver silence behind them as she undid the bolts and opened up to the daylight . |
| 15 | Another day dawned and the mists from the river swirled and eddied round the banks and crept up to the house the Hanging Judge had built . |
| 16 | Similarly , a motherless Glasgow soldier 's daughter was taken in by her grandparents and brought up with the help of an aunt , who married soon after but stayed in the same home . |
| 17 | I decided in the circumstances that the 35 US gallon model was hardly adequate for my purposes and traded up to the 55 US gallon model . |
| 18 | Three pairs of eyes focused on me and I felt like the family pet , the Old English sheepdog that 's lost its marbles and joined up with the wolf pack to go worrying innocent lambs . |
| 19 | A light breeze from the north cleared the air and the sun blazed out over distant mountains as we headed between the Crowlin Isles and shaped up towards the Kyle of Localsh . |
| 20 | Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres . |
| 21 | They located her shoulder blades , her spine , the small of her back , and then slid between our compressing bodies and travelled up to the tiny soft immensities of her bosom . |
| 22 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 23 | Suzi burst into tears and hurried up to the bathroom . |
| 24 | No pin-ups , just pictures cut from magazines and stuck up on the wall in a kind of patchwork : pictures of lambs and cats and small puppies with ribbons round their necks , country cottages and the tropical beaches that went with advertisements for white rum , whose colours could n't possibly be real . |
| 25 | Derby 's Mark Pembridge , Andy Melville of Oxford and Portsmouth 's Kit Symons came safely through their games and joined up with the squad last night . |
| 26 | Faced with a national drought that was playing havoc with his own garden and those of his village neighbours , one Richard Bullock took matters into his own hands and ended up in the dock for his pains . |
| 27 | Which was n't precisely what she was worried about , thought Folly as she ducked under the rotors and climbed up into the bubble-like cockpit . |
| 28 | Sally-Anne reached the gates and walked up to the rectory , an eighteenth-century building which had once been beautiful , but like the area around it had gone to seed badly , although Dr Neil had told her that it was elegant , if shabby inside . |
| 29 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 30 | One morning in mid-January I jumped over the railings and climbed up to the parapet of the gate . |