Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel . |
| 2 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
| 3 | In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime . |
| 4 | There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied . |
| 5 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 6 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 7 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 8 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 9 | Railways van drew up outside the big house . |
| 10 | Not wishing to antagonize Harry , when finally they drew up outside the little cottage in Melton Mowbray to which Mrs Appleby had now retired , Madeleine allowed herself to be persuaded inside . |
| 11 | They drew up beside the stone-pillared farm gate which Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 12 | When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke . |
| 13 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
| 14 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 15 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 16 | We lined up across the broad esplanade between the Prime Minister 's Office and the clear Caribbean Sea . |
| 17 | In November 1990 , they lined up inside the front door to shake the Majors by the hand ; following an election victory , protocol decrees that Turnbull should lead his colleagues in applause . |
| 18 | Setting off from Rosedale village centre ( the bakery there does a rather stunning line in apricot and mincemeat slices ) , we headed up towards the infamous Chimney Bank ( a one in three climb , used for the British National Hillclimb Championships ) . |
| 19 | Caro peered up to the black sky . |
| 20 | The cop peered up at the towering fire escape for several seconds , then , satisfied it was deserted , he walked across the alley to the opposite wall . |
| 21 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 22 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
| 23 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 24 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 25 | Mr. F.J. Norris , the Head of Modern Languages , had first come to the School , on teaching practice , in 1933 , and returned in January 1934 as Form Master of Junior A. He soon moved up into the Senior School . |
| 26 | In the first place , population decline means less than optimum use of the urban infrastructure built up during the major redevelopment phase of the later 1960s and 1970s . |
| 27 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 28 | Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1 . |
| 29 | Yet it is impossible for an ordinary woman , perhaps with two or three young children , or by now middle-aged , to live up to the sexual fantasies built up within the containing cell . |
| 30 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |