Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you ask me , that 's going a bit far , ’ said Ozaran as he watched Jinkwa snuggling up to the dead body of the General . |
| 2 | As the sun begins to set , I drive along Vermont gazing up at the eerie silhouettes of young Korean men armed with M-16s , machine pistols and infra-red binoculars . |
| 3 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 4 | There again is the brave Boris Nikolayevich facing up to a murderous convict who has been given work on a building site and is threatening foreman Yeltsin with an axe ; sheer strength of will sends the man packing and the construction team gets the work done on time . |
| 5 | He actually dreamed of himself in a suit of armour opening the big , oak front door with a mace in his hand and Adam riding up on a black , colourfully caparisoned horse . |
| 6 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 7 | Barry Jones boiled over when he saw 63-year-old Vera brewing up for a local hospice on her day off . |
| 8 | Against a panoramic backdrop , we see orphaned P.K. growing up in a hostile environment . |
| 9 | That well Lil and Nev going up on the mini break |
| 10 | Alongside the item about Sniffy Wilson and the MacQuillan death plot , Holly had ringed a story about Vanessa taking up with a rich young duke after the break-up of her marriage to Wickham . |