Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She heard footsteps on the catwalk and peered up into the semi-darkness trying to get a fix on the German 's movements . |
| 32 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 33 | At Cajabamba we joined a slightly better road , and soon afterwards we turned west and headed up into the mountains through Huamachuco , climbing all the way . |
| 34 | He took no notice , but turned in and drew up in the courtyard . |
| 35 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 36 | He passed out , and woke up on the ground having fallen 1800 feet into a fir tree and five feet of snow . |
| 37 | It was sweet dreams all round but they went to sleep far too early — and woke up to the reality of elimination . |
| 38 | After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself . |
| 39 | I mean he initially did n't wan na know and then you went on about er and came up with the idea of well I 'm very fit , the family 's fit never have any problems health wise erm the o the only thing there you , I do n't think you actually mentioned possibility of accident |
| 40 | and came up with the word ‘ Happiness ’ . |
| 41 | We collected the evidence , calculated the Twit Factor ( see below ) and came up with the answers … |
| 42 | Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed . |
| 43 | In 1972 5,000 researchers in two huge operations took a census and came up with the figure of 1,872 tigers for the whole of India . |
| 44 | They boy ignored him , though , and came up to the wood . |
| 45 | They passed below them , into the narrower part of the field between the two copses , and it was not until Acorn had been sent half-way down the slope to attract their attention that they turned and came up to the ditch . |
| 46 | The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks . |
| 47 | Tallis moved quietly round the house and came up behind the hunter ; she sat on the rush matting and hugged her knees , listening to what was being said . |
| 48 | She must have got clearance at Gravesend and sailed up on the ebb . |
| 49 | Corbett narrowed his eyes and squinted up at the sky . |
| 50 | Then she got out and strolled up to the gate with her most provocative walk . |
| 51 | The house is seized by the demolition contractors , its park invaded and churned up by the tractors and trailers of the timber merchant . |
| 52 | The names of the gold winners were not known until the judges ' scores , which had been sealed , were opened and added up on the night . |
| 53 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | As a result , the nineteenth-century approaches had misconceived the nature of God 's Word itself , turning it into a spiritual ideal , a heroic example , or a set of ethical norms , and interpreted Jesus accordingly , instead of recognising in him the perennially contemporary event of the encounter of time with eternity , the intersection of the finite by the infinite , by which everything human and creaturely is contradicted in its self-enclosedness and opened up to the reality of God . |
| 56 | The empty restaurant lay in linen-and-silver silence behind them as she undid the bolts and opened up to the daylight . |
| 57 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 58 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Very flat on the bottom and turned up to the bow and that 's what the salmon fishers used in the in the rivers for pulling their nets in and fishing salmon on the . |