Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 2 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 3 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 4 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 5 | At T/Sgt John E Smith wrote : ‘ You would n't have known these ladies served as mechanics and armourers in the Women 's Royal Air Force beginning 52 years ago by the way they climbed up and the down the stairs at the control tower or scrambled up to the cockpit of an F-16 ’ . |
| 6 | Small operators have been driven into bankruptcy or bought up by the giants , and buses have become older and less reliable . |
| 7 | This form of modern-day slavery also exists in the Dominican Republic where thousands of Haitians are bought or rounded up by the military to work in appalling conditions on sugar-cane plantations . |
| 8 | This is Michael Wayland , who appears on television a lot , and who as a consequence can never remember anything unless it 's written on the Autocue , or held up beside the lens in front of him . |
| 9 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 10 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 11 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 12 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 13 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 14 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 15 | According to Virginia Cowles , he dropped with Lewes 's party , but others say that he was left at Kabrit as a result of injuries during training and met up with the survivors later . |
| 16 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 17 | and read up to the summer |
| 18 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 19 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 22 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 23 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 24 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 25 | Marie pushed back her coffee and got up from the table . |
| 26 | She finished her drink and got up from the table . |
| 27 | He shook his head and got up from the table , taking his plate to the sink to rinse it . |
| 28 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 29 | A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants . |
| 30 | In 1737–8 he served on a committee of the Goldsmiths ’ Company , promoting the Plate Offences Act , and moved up through the hierarchy of the court , only failing to serve as prime warden . |