Example sentences of "[vb past] up [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made me coffee , gave me hugs , and at one point I fell asleep , and was at peace for a while , and woke up sprawled on the floor , my head on her lap , one gentle hand stroking my head . |
| 2 | Across the choppy water from them stands Billingsgate Fish Market , smartened up to tone with the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 4 | Without looking back he ran to the end of the passageway and climbed up to hide in the shelves . |
| 5 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 7 | But as the sepoy lunged forward to put an end to the struggle he stumbled , blinded by the dust and plaster from the ceiling , and fetched up choking on the floor beside Fleury . |
| 8 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 9 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 10 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 11 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 12 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 13 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 14 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 15 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 16 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 17 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 18 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 19 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |
| 20 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 21 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 22 | As he did in midweek against Wolves , Whitton stepped up to score from the spot . |
| 23 | As he fingered the black , transparent things hung up to dry in the bathroom , he had scented sin . |
| 24 | Tal gave a most unparrotlike crow and flew up to perch on the top of a monitor . |
| 25 | A thought struck her , and she leapt up to peer into the mirror over the mantelpiece . |
| 26 | A public relations campaign also started up to draw in the waverers . |
| 27 | A dark , cowled figure came in and went up to stand in the Lady Chapel . |
| 28 | In a lull , she drifted up to see to the babies , but misjudged mounting the stair ; Bridhe , desperate for more hands , was coming down and grabbed her . |
| 29 | Gray grew up singing in the gospel choir at the local church . |
| 30 | C. P. Snow had been a scientist at Christ 's College , Cambridge before he turned to fiction ; William Golding , a Salisbury schoolteacher who gave up teaching with the success of Lord of the Flies , has never exactly written an academic fiction , but The Spire ( 1964 ) is about the enclosed scholastic world of medieval architecture . |