Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | An explosion of methane gas which seeped up from the ground in Derbyshire 5 years ago demolished a pensioner 's house . |
| 2 | The bullet punched through armour plate , the tank exploded , and the arvee rose up into the air in a whirl of flame . |
| 3 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 4 | Mrs Stych drew up at the kerb in her new European car , bought , needless to say , from Maxie 's arch-rival down in Edmonton . |
| 5 | Police say a car containing three men drew up outside the house in Hudson Street . |
| 6 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 7 | After a couple of days to sort kit , we headed up onto the hill in two parties of eight . |
| 8 | She scuffed up to the altar in her carpet slippers , and stood next to Clare , with the ill-tempered , tight-lipped expression she always adopted when in church or in the presence of the clergy . |
| 9 | You woke up to the figure in the dress with the head of the wolf . |
| 10 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 11 | We did n't pay any attention , but a minute later one of the waiters came up to the table in a hurry . |
| 12 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 13 | Cold fusion is the brainchild of Charles Frank , who first came up with the idea in 1947 . |
| 14 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
| 15 | The man posed as a gas board official when he turned up at the restaurant in Tarrant Street , Arundel , Sussex . |
| 16 | Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin . |
| 17 | The leaden feeling that weighed heavily on me as Jean-Claude rode into Paris did not lift when we fetched up at the house in the rue Victorie . |
| 18 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 19 | Allowing for exaggeration , it is nevertheless true to say that the Emperor lived up to the Idea in so far as the re-ordering of Paris was concerned . |
| 20 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 21 | Every night that Madame stepped up onto the stage in her dress , Boy would be watching her ; he always stayed for that . |
| 22 | Like a jockey choosing one ride over another before a Grand National , Tip finished up with the winner in 1961 . |
| 23 | No pin-ups , just pictures cut from magazines and stuck up on the wall in a kind of patchwork : pictures of lambs and cats and small puppies with ribbons round their necks , country cottages and the tropical beaches that went with advertisements for white rum , whose colours could n't possibly be real . |
| 24 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 25 | They sobered up at the graveside in anticipation of the encounter of Jennie and Mary but it was not as hostile as they expected . |
| 26 | Breeze , curled up on the hearthrug in her favourite attitude , watched her and wondered when , if ever , she would hear her play again . |
| 27 | In the Fens , mothers abandoned their children ‘ swimming in their beds , till good people , adventuring their lives , went up to the breast in the waters to fetch them out at the windows ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ We parted company and I took up with the bozo in the trenchcoat . |
| 29 | At Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire an entirely new settlement mainly composed of inns , grew up at the point in the parish where the Holyhead road left the Roman Watling Street and struck north-west towards Daventry . |
| 30 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |