Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 2 | His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave . |
| 3 | That is why the people of Scotland rose up against the rating system . |
| 4 | So when her car drew up outside the refuge house on Tuesday there was n't a soul around . |
| 5 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 6 | Initially probably about er three hundred yards er in a in a side junction erm , but as , once the ins once the operation had commenced erm we moved up onto the car park actually on , below the flats . |
| 7 | But as the fear of invasion receded and the public outrage at the scandals of the Arandora Star and the Dunera made itself known , refugees moved up in the War Office estimation . |
| 8 | This convinced all but the Party members that the Communists had abandoned their previous opposition to Fascism and simply removed the core of the alliances built up during the Unity campaigns . |
| 9 | The circumstances of Doe 's capture and his killing drained much of the credibility built up by the ECOMOG forces , then under the command of Lt.-Gen. |
| 10 | Hitler 's extraordinary popular standing , built up in the peacetime years on the foundations of his perceived personal achievement in overcoming economic and political crisis , ridding Germany of unemployment , and making the nation great again through an astonishing series of diplomatic coups , was maintained in the first phase of the war ; it was then even further elevated through the scarcely conceivable run of military victories attained with minimal loss and sacrifice and , not least , through the prospect he continued to hold up of an imminent glorious end to the war . |
| 11 | The grass sprouted up between the paving slabs and the lawn was nearly overspilling with bushes and flowers now growing wild . |
| 12 | His eyes — matt like those of a dead fish on the slab — flickered up to the bone china model of a Suffolk Punch above their heads , the bright colours making the creature appear unearthly . |
| 13 | A quick calculation will show that the sum of constant capital used up in the production cycle — 5454.5 — plus the constant capital accumulated from surplus-value is equal to the product of Dept . |
| 14 | These consisted mainly of leisure bookings , particularly for the coming Easter weekend , which almost dried up during the election campaign . |
| 15 | But you can see the police parked up at the trouble spots . |
| 16 | The indignation stirred up by the gutter press in Nuremberg focuses on Dr Fohrbeck 's religious convictions . |
| 17 | Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom . |
| 18 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 19 | On the second day , I geared up for the Horseshoe Pass , three miles up followed by a long down to Llangollen . |
| 20 | Finally we drove up to the Clonmacnoise ruins . |
| 21 | As they drove up to the house Constance thought that it looked very dark and silent . |
| 22 | Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all . |
| 23 | So a male companion and I drove up to the starting point in Glen Lyon , a few miles east of Bridge of Balgie where a bridge crosses the River Lyon to a cattle farm . |
| 24 | Her father never came up to the nursery floor . |
| 25 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 26 | Also had further letter from Notts County Council about Nottinghamshire Minerals local plan , asking us again if we have any representations to make , I think it was decided at a previous meeting that we did not , erm Colin Williamson , production of development and planning at Newton and Sherwood District Council , it 's proposal to run seminars for Parish Councils on planning policies , law and procedures , and we would like to know erm whether erm we would be interested in attending , and how many people would wish , he he has earmarked temporarily twenty eighth of March , which is a Monday , as a possible date at town hall , so if er if you think that would be something that you would be erm interested in going to , the topics erm are really I think things that came up at the Parish Council 's conference , the questions about planning , about the rules , and the policies , and the procedures etcetera , the erm , and visitors were talking last thing for sixth of December for five minutes , and the discussion for half an hour to three quarters , commencing at half past seven , so er if anyone 's interested in attending that ? |
| 27 | David came up with the name Depeche Mode after seeing the french magazine of the same name . ’ |
| 28 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
| 29 | They came up with the council tax . |
| 30 | Checking her skirt pockets , she came up with the car keys . |