Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about . |
| 2 | He came straight up to the open window and smiled . |
| 3 | She turned and walked slowly up to the front door of the villa . |
| 4 | Together they walked slowly up towards the great house , Artemis lagging slightly behind to try and avoid conversation . |
| 5 | Benny walked slowly up towards the high seats at the back where she thought she might be more inconspicuous . |
| 6 | She walked quickly up to the front door , opened it , turned and waved . |
| 7 | Angel Four grunted once in agony as the cruel steel sliced straight up into the pulsing muscle of his heart . |
| 8 | He looked ahead to where the road curved openly up to the left , free road ahead , that 's where he was going up on that open road ahead with this great sense of power behind his eyes , behind his shoulders , in his thighs . |
| 9 | So Jane and John took to the boats , and drifted right up to the remaining seals before they scattered into the water . |
| 10 | That night El-ahrairah came out of the marshes of Kelfazin and went secretly up to the great ditch . |
| 11 | But it also went right up to the fifties . |
| 12 | Did n't we notice that her voice really was n't that strong when it went right up to the top storey ? |
| 13 | And er but of course the whole force of the explosion went right up in the light room . |
| 14 | The Scottish Teacher Training Course , 1977–1983 was run by Rata Quick , whose notable memories include Scottish hospitality , her first taste of malt whisky , the view from Inverclyde across to the snow covered by skyline of Arran , worn Georgian stone stairs ( 80 to the top flat ) , friends founds and kept right up to the present day , and years of wonderful companionship in shared enjoyment of music and movement the Medau way . |
| 15 | She stared dazedly up into a wild , glittering gaze that held her helplessly captive . |
| 16 | Then he looked peacefully up at the white ceiling again . |
| 17 | Porter was carrying a large floppy-covered book ; she went straight up to an African writer , N'dosi , showed him the book , held open , and offered him a biro . |
| 18 | Mistakenly , he thought that the figures he saw high up on the furthest rocks were working the rich secrets of the plumbago or wadd mine . |
| 19 | She looked hastily up at the rising land behind her , saw nobody , and hitched her skirts up to tuck them into her waistband . |
| 20 | We went quietly up to the top floor , where he unlocked one of the small black doors . |
| 21 | The girl smiled shyly up at the big man behind the wheel and got a friendly grin in return . |
| 22 | Once through the boulder field , a grassy sward high above picturesque Crummack Dale led steadily up to a broad plateau near Long Scar , from where we had our first view of the distant and brooding Ingleborough rising from a vast array of moor and limestone pavements , shimmering in the summer heat like a huge field of cotton grass . |
| 23 | The normal business life of the town continued right up to the last moment and in some houses food was laid out for meals that were never eaten . |
| 24 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 25 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 26 | But they were solid , and led safely up to the ruined top of the wall where another , larger slab made a good view point . |
| 27 | The door closed behind them and they crept quietly up to the top floor in order not to wake the sleeping boys downstairs . |
| 28 | The bridge had been removed but the wooden platform and building were visible from the road below ; there was a roofed stairway leading to platform level , every step was either missing or rotten , so the bottom of the staircase was made completely inaccessible with barbed wire criss-crossed right up to the old roof beam . |