Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 9 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 10 | Most prison reformers , including Howard , have emphasized that any rehabilitative effect which prison may have will derive primarily from the quality of the relationship built up between a respected member of staff and an individual prisoner . |
| 11 | The relationships can now be changed , delays between activities inserted and the whole built up into a complex network that can be displayed as a PERT chart by using the optional unit . |
| 12 | Detail by detail built up into a formidable possibility , in which , nevertheless , he did not believe . |
| 13 | An external 2-pole 5-way switch will then be needed and the circuit shown in Fig. 13 built up on a small board . |
| 14 | His interest in media started as a by-product of buying the House of Fraser , initially a large department stores group built up by a nationalistic Scot , Lord Fraser of Annandale . |
| 15 | The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn . |
| 16 | Here the pope had the advantage over the emperor for , with the removal of the empire to the West , Roman law ceased to be declared and the Roman law dried up as a living law . |
| 17 | The angry words dried up in a strangled gasp , though , as she found herself staring into the dark brown eyes of Julius Landor , her husband . |
| 18 | Eventually , stirred up by a fire-breathing minister called Reverend George Whitefield , the mob , that is to say , congregation , censored the proceedings by the simple expedient of pulling the theatre to bits . |
| 19 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 20 | Even allowing for delicious exaggeration it still added up to a horrifying picture and she began to wish she had n't even tried to get into the company . |
| 21 | The weather was perfect , the room inviting and comfortable which added up to a happy atmosphere . |
| 22 | As far as he could , he would keep a record of the magician 's movements and see if they added up to a meaningful pattern . |
| 23 | For inveterate cattle-lifters it all added up to a convenient no-man's-land across which to launch thieving raids . |
| 24 | Lucien woke up with a racing heart . |
| 25 | She woke up with a little start , wiping the corner of her mouth with her hand . |
| 26 | Jessamy woke up with a sudden start . |
| 27 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 28 | On Wednesday David Howell , the Energy Secretary , was forced to withdraw the threat of pit closures and on Thursday we woke up to a dreadful press accusing us of ignominious surrender . |
| 29 | Peter woke up from a violent dream that was to change everything . |
| 30 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |