Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 2 | There was something in the speed , as they rounded corners on two wheels , that shook her out of her bad mood , and when they drew up with a squeal of brakes in the narrow road just by Pepe 's Bar , she was laughing at Miguel 's uncharacteristic recklessness . |
| 3 | The whole house smelled of it , of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust . |
| 4 | My eye swelled up in a matter of minutes , and I was unable to hear anything . |
| 5 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 6 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 7 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 8 | The pressure built up in a system as a result of the intake of water by osmosis . |
| 9 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 10 | Not given to making the headlines , it has recently attracted attention with the launch of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known to the Renaissance on a computerised database , with Getty support , and an old debate stirred up by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which criticised London University 's custodianship of the library and called for its return to Hamburg . |
| 11 | Pupils would no doubt be intrigued to learn how the milk-can was used to fetch milk from the farm , or filled up from a churn on the milkman 's cart . |
| 12 | I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me . |
| 13 | Now — you woke up with a sense of relief and surprise that you were still there , you got up , brushed your teeth , and before you knew it you were watching television . |
| 14 | The magician woke up with a yell of pain . |
| 15 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 16 | Jocelyn 's pain woke up after a night of drunken revelling feeling remarkably well . |
| 17 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |
| 18 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 19 | But then , with Matilda concentrating fiercely , one end of it slowly lifted up about an inch off the table-top . |
| 20 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 21 | I preferred doing what we call off-diary stories , not the councils and the jobs that came up as a matter of routine . |
| 22 | Its child protection procedures have information about what to do if a child is worried about HIV , and how to make an appropriate referral if HIV/AIDS came up as an issue for child who has been sexually abused . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 24 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 25 | So , after licking another 485 stamps , she came up with a manifest of eight people , one Sloth , Gan Moondork ( one of Nintendo 's escaped bionic mutations ) and Gan 's woman ( the Rubber Dummy ) . |
| 26 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 27 | Between them they came up with a pile of notes and coins . |
| 28 | And this particular night she went into the yard , the yard door was shut , she went into the yard and was standing , looking at the moon — when the ticket lad came up with a ticket for me father . |
| 29 | The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port . |
| 30 | Space-age French designer Andre Courreges came up with a classic in 1964 that has been much copied since — the mid-calf , soft kid , white boot for women . |