Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 2 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 3 | The tanks and troops were still crossing the river as the Officer I had accompanied drew up beside me with the jeep . |
| 4 | A man caught up with her on the pavement and for a moment she stared at him blankly . |
| 5 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 7 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 8 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 9 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 10 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 11 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 12 | Our main memory is of trying to keep the inside of the windscreen free of ice ( no heater ) while queues of traffic built up beside us on the long haul up Shap Fell . |
| 13 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 14 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 15 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 16 | He came up to me outside the church . |
| 17 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 18 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 19 | A less judicial member of the Party came up to him in the lobby only half-convinced , but with tears of emotion running down his cheeks . |
| 20 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 21 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 22 | ‘ And then , one day , a man came up to you on the street . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 24 | But as they were returning with all speed , Rodrigo of Bivar raised the country , and came up with them in the mountains of Oca , and fell upon them and discomfited them , and won back all their booty , and took all the five Kings prisoners . |
| 25 | Came up before me on the bench once . |
| 26 | Very quietly , I came up behind them through the trees , and called out to them in English . |
| 27 | She climbed up beside him on the ridge of rock . |
| 28 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 29 | There seemed no limit now to what could go wrong ; panic welled up in her at the least excuse . |
| 30 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |