Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had overshot by fifty yards but , since there was no room to turn , he 'd backed up to the junction in a rapid , snaky line , and picked them up again after ten minutes of anxious-cautious driving — fast on the straights , slow on the bends . |
| 32 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 33 | They got called up by the Cabinet Office . |
| 34 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 35 | The boaters , 4 adults and 4 children were sailing on the River Severn , when they got swept up by the Severn bore . |
| 36 | Even the Press box got swept up in the occasion and there were roars of approval from the local scribes when Craig Brewster opened the scoring in the first-half and Dalziel applied the coup de grace in the second . |
| 37 | Gabriel was able to slide into it , head-first , over the edge of the platform , and lay curled up in the bottom , as still as a hedgehog in hibernation . |
| 38 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 39 | Pascoe saw a face he knew locked up in the face of a stranger . |
| 40 | Roland felt buoyed up by the height of Maud 's great divan . |
| 41 | She had the knack of handling him if he got worked up about the posing , she knew how to quieten him down , and this ability to put up with his disagreeable side could only mean one thing , he reasoned . |
| 42 | Things did liven up after the break when Wallace replaced Whelan . |
| 43 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |
| 44 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 45 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 46 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 47 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 48 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 49 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 50 | In a press conference on Aug. 1 Danforth stated that he " had given up on the administration " but that he intended to introduce his compromise bill when Congress reconvened from its summer recess . |
| 51 | That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans . |
| 52 | The train was hauled by BR Standard 75069 , and was formed of five goods brakevans comprising one LMS , one SR , one GWR ‘ Toad ’ and two BR Types of van which give ample space for the party of 43 that were carried , the majority of whom had travelled up from the Bath-Bristol area by coach . |
| 53 | And , as the big metal bird had lifted up into the sky , two heavy hands had taken her by the shoulders . |
| 54 | The collar-points of his white shirt had rolled up in the heat . |
| 55 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 56 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 57 | Robertson had caught up with the words and passed the manuscript , still wet , to the laird . |
| 58 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 59 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 60 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |