Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 2 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 3 | Woke up with a hangover but it was a lovely day outside . |
| 4 | You Judas ! ’ shouted the devil-man , and all the piglets woke up with a start and hurtled round the lock-up colliding with prisoners and shrieking like souls in torment : a blitz of piglets . |
| 5 | He woke up with a curse and with flailing fists . |
| 6 | The Dormouse woke up for a minute and then went to sleep again . |
| 7 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 8 | At ten-thirty-five , a stout woman in a blue overall with plain , pale-blue collar and cuffs to denote her seniority came up with a clipboard and said , ‘ Tim and Anna . |
| 9 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 10 | Her mother delved once more into her bag , came up with a biscuit and curled Nicola 's hand round it . |
| 11 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 12 | Instead , he came up with a drink that has spread its alcoholic tentacles around the globe . |
| 13 | He came up with a system that he has named after himself , ‘ nanbudo ’ ( ‘ way of Nanbu ’ ) . |
| 14 | The garden was planned by professional designer Naila Green who came up with a snakes and ladders theme . |
| 15 | The Royal Navy rapidly came up with a countermeasure once it had discovered exactly what circuits Exocet used to foil attempts to head it off . |
| 16 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 17 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 18 | I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little . |
| 19 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 20 | So , an enterprising chap by the name of Len Middleton came up with an idea that would present the bait on fine , supple line ( the hair ) , and yet still have a strong hook attached to a strong , somewhat rigid line . |
| 21 | An added embarrassment was a report ( also leaked ) by the chief inspector for nuclear safety who warned against complacency and came up with an estimate that there was a ‘ several per cent ’ chance of a serious accident in the next twenty years . |
| 22 | Two , two or three week 's running Jenny came up on a weekend and brought us a bar of chocolate each |
| 23 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 24 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 25 | I must thank the judges who did a good job for us apart from three who entered , showed up for a while and were then missing when their turn was due . |
| 26 | Peter Simpkins , who made the find , said : ‘ It showed up on a screen and all we had to do was dig it up . ’ |
| 27 | And my mate Lizzy showed up with a migraine and a helluva problem over her son 's school . |
| 28 | The ballet master Balanchine , for one , showed up at a work-out and gazed in wonder . |
| 29 | She flared up in a fury and we parted for life again … |
| 30 | ‘ It 's going to upset people 's expectations of what a D*Note record is , ’ says Wienevski , who , holed up in a studio and creating his pocket symphonies , is proving to be a man to watch . |