Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vangmoor came up on the screen as if they were looking out of the window , but Vangmoor in summer without the wind and with leaves on the trees . |
| 2 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 3 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 4 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 5 | He looked up at the ceiling as if expecting to see him floating there . |
| 6 | He settled back and looked up at the ceiling as if he had forgotten she was there , and Maggie had the urge to creep away . |
| 7 | Her wide blue eyes swept up at the waiter as if considering him . |
| 8 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |