Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We drew up outside a building which was surrounded by a walled courtyard . |
| 2 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 3 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 4 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 5 | Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’ |
| 6 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 7 | I was remembering some of the facts I built up from the data you brought me . |
| 8 | I realised that many did drugs , so I spent a lot of time in the drug community before hand , so that once I hooked up with the women I could move back and forth . |
| 9 | In victory , Major sidled up to the MPs who voted for his rivals , including one-nation characters such as Chris Patten , Kenneth Clarke and William Waldegrave , who had rallied to the reassuring establishment figure of the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 10 | I said well he reckons it does , he says when he filled up at the garage it were full , he says we had n't got back and it was between the half and three quarters , I said oh I never looked at it |
| 11 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 12 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 13 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 14 | And she came up with a list which are pleas from the switchboard supervisor . |
| 15 | In the course of his committee cull , Armstrong came up with a phrase which deserves a permanent place in any anthology of Civil Servicese . |
| 16 | They were then left with a hole to fill but they came up with a rider who not only won at Kirkistown but also showed a lot of talent . |
| 17 | Emily and I put our heads together after office hours and came up with the answers we needed . |
| 18 | Chapelcross community fund came up with the cash which will be used to provide visitors ' toilets at the centre and to assist in its general operation . |
| 19 | Finally , Carol came up with the design he wanted . |
| 20 | Dave even came up with an idea we was talking about the other day . |
| 21 | As he came up over the rise he thought he heard a beautiful song . |
| 22 | As dawn came up in the sky we made preparations to move back to our own lines , covering our withdrawal and keeping careful watch for any signs of the enemy . |
| 23 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 24 | And as he recovered at home , he opened up about the moment he thought his season was over . |
| 25 | I studied piano , too , then trombone , but it was n't until someone at school turned up with a guitar which had been ‘ converted ’ into a bass that I really thought about the instrument . |
| 26 | My partner for the event was the marvellous American player Muffin Spencer-Devlin , who turned up with a bag which had ‘ Save the Whales ’ written all over it . |
| 27 | He wore a leather beret to conceal his black hair , tinted wrap-around glasses and a coat turned up at the collar which masked the lower half of his face . |
| 28 | With a steady breeze blowing , and a blue sky puffed with cotton-wool clouds , a day 's windsurfing would concentrate her mind away from him , blow the shadows away , perhaps , and if by some chance Luke turned up at the club it would be easy enough to avoid him . |
| 29 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 30 | Leaping off the bed I hurtled up to the rod which by now was screaming off and picking it up I felt the line pluck nicely through my fingers ; knowing that it must be a cat on the other end gave me a real thrill . |