Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 9 | The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 13 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 16 | Railways van drew up outside the big house . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The cab drew up outside an enormous emporium in the very heart of the town , and Ellie alighted while Madame paid off the cab . |
| 19 | They drew up beside the stone-pillared farm gate which Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 20 | When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales . |
| 23 | Outside in the war-torn street , Special Forces vehicles drew up in an uncompromising line . |
| 24 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 26 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 27 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 30 | We lined up across the broad esplanade between the Prime Minister 's Office and the clear Caribbean Sea . |