Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ A vast pillar of fire rose up through the floor and decimated the display of the Nugahiro Corporation 's new range of lap-top computers ! ’
2 As the very last mouthful disappeared , a tremendous cheer rose up from the audience and children were leaping on to their chairs and yelling and clapping and shouting , ‘ Well done , Brucie !
3 A few moments later , however , a taxi drew up to the kerb and he thrust his golden head out of the window .
4 A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about .
5 Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able .
6 An elegant BMW drew up over the road and Fatimah Bankhead , the chain-smoking Islamic feminist , stepped out .
7 Then a car drew up in the courtyard and at the same time the telephone rang .
8 The seamen aboard Villa de Bilbao lined up along the bow and the starting gun was fired .
9 A test was arranged involving a detachment of Guards who lined up along the WCs and flushed in unison .
10 We lined up across the street and he said : ‘ You keep in line and if you knock anyone down , leave him and keep going . ’
11 To the accompaniment of shouts and screams from the Corporals , we lined up in the corridor and were counted and recounted by them .
12 We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead .
13 Gabriel knelt up inside the cart and peered out to see what would happen .
14 They caught up with the truck and followed it back to camp .
15 I caught up with the others as they were entering the front door of the house .
16 He caught up with the pair when they stopped to change getaway cars .
17 I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked .
18 He watched as Turakina caught up with the pig and rode over it .
19 As Joseph caught up with the senator and Chuck , Jacques Devraux appeared on the track ahead , walking quickly back towards them .
20 He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him .
21 Alec moved up to the plane and ran a loving hand along its polished propeller blade .
22 Whittingham says : ‘ I got a real stamina bank built up during the summer and , once I started scoring goals , my self-confidence was sky-high .
23 Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied .
24 It was outside rather than inside the Cortes that a conservative opposition built up against the liberals and by 1811 the unity of patriotic reformism was broken .
25 When I was a lad a man went in the ar , he hooked up with the army if he 'd got no trade and no hope
26 The societies woke up to the threat and realised that the public was no longer naturally coming to them for mortgages .
27 While in the 1970s Turkish law prevented any art or antiquities from leaving the country , for whatever reason , in the 1980s the Turkish government woke up to the prestige and international recognition that could accrue from sending travelling exhibitions abroad .
28 By the time they woke up to the fact that many people would be only 2p a week better off , Smith had gained the headlines with the claim that eight out of 10 families gained .
29 I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church .
30 It 's about time the music press woke up to the fact that rave is the new heavy metal , sucking innocents in and destroying their musical tastebuds .
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