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Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera .
2	Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel .
3	As she did so , she noticed that the heath adjoining the road rose up to a small hill , on top of which stood an old and dilapidated windmill .
4	Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves .
5	A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us .
6	All her fifteen combed and scrubbed years rose up in an endless vista of baths and shampoos and clean underwear ; a cortege of full baths in which she had washed herself , a slithering file of bars of soap which she had rubbed to nothing against her flesh .
7	In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime .
8	There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied .
9	It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’
10	The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in .
11	Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself .
12	They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top .
13	Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside .
14	He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack .
15	Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night .
16	Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep .
17	Railways van drew up outside the big house .
18	Not wishing to antagonize Harry , when finally they drew up outside the little cottage in Melton Mowbray to which Mrs Appleby had now retired , Madeleine allowed herself to be persuaded inside .
19	The cab drew up outside an enormous emporium in the very heart of the town , and Ellie alighted while Madame paid off the cab .
20	They drew up beside the stone-pillared farm gate which Lesley-Jane had described .
21	When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke .
22	We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office .
23	We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales .
24	Outside in the war-torn street , Special Forces vehicles drew up in an uncompromising line .
25	Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’
26	‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge .
27	He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment .
28	I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits !
29	Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn .
30	If the plan goes through , the mine would push further west from the workings acquired when Wheal Jane lined up with a second mine , Mount Wellington , a couple of years ago .