Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 2 | His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave . |
| 3 | As she disturbed them , a film of dust rose up like an atom cloud . |
| 4 | That is why the people of Scotland rose up against the rating system . |
| 5 | The taxi drew up opposite the Battersea Bridge end of the boats . |
| 6 | So when her car drew up outside the refuge house on Tuesday there was n't a soul around . |
| 7 | But as Percy Makepeace twittered through the hall and down the corridor with his clerical acquaintance , two more cars drew up in the Burleigh driveway . |
| 8 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 9 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 10 | Initially probably about er three hundred yards er in a in a side junction erm , but as , once the ins once the operation had commenced erm we moved up onto the car park actually on , below the flats . |
| 11 | But as the fear of invasion receded and the public outrage at the scandals of the Arandora Star and the Dunera made itself known , refugees moved up in the War Office estimation . |
| 12 | His eyes — matt like those of a dead fish on the slab — flickered up to the bone china model of a Suffolk Punch above their heads , the bright colours making the creature appear unearthly . |
| 13 | A quick calculation will show that the sum of constant capital used up in the production cycle — 5454.5 — plus the constant capital accumulated from surplus-value is equal to the product of Dept . |
| 14 | These consisted mainly of leisure bookings , particularly for the coming Easter weekend , which almost dried up during the election campaign . |
| 15 | Parts of its head wrinkled up into a half frown . |
| 16 | The indignation stirred up by the gutter press in Nuremberg focuses on Dr Fohrbeck 's religious convictions . |
| 17 | Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom . |
| 18 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 19 | This was fine , but solid evidence will have to be provided that the scene in which Palin woke up on the Orient Express to the knock of brioches at the door was the real thing . |
| 20 | Two days later Charlie woke up in a hospital tent , some three hundred yards behind the line , to find a young girl in a dark blue uniform with a royal crest above her heart hovering over him . |
| 21 | On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen . |
| 22 | Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all . |
| 23 | So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm . |
| 24 | Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated . |
| 25 | A chap can be supervising a spiffing archaeological dig on the Eastern fringes of the Soviet Union one day , only to find himself banged up in a Moscow jail on highly dubious spying charges the next . |
| 26 | Her father never came up to the nursery floor . |
| 27 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 28 | Also had further letter from Notts County Council about Nottinghamshire Minerals local plan , asking us again if we have any representations to make , I think it was decided at a previous meeting that we did not , erm Colin Williamson , production of development and planning at Newton and Sherwood District Council , it 's proposal to run seminars for Parish Councils on planning policies , law and procedures , and we would like to know erm whether erm we would be interested in attending , and how many people would wish , he he has earmarked temporarily twenty eighth of March , which is a Monday , as a possible date at town hall , so if er if you think that would be something that you would be erm interested in going to , the topics erm are really I think things that came up at the Parish Council 's conference , the questions about planning , about the rules , and the policies , and the procedures etcetera , the erm , and visitors were talking last thing for sixth of December for five minutes , and the discussion for half an hour to three quarters , commencing at half past seven , so er if anyone 's interested in attending that ? |
| 29 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
| 30 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |