Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 2 | Parts of its head wrinkled up into a half frown . |
| 3 | Two days later Charlie woke up in a hospital tent , some three hundred yards behind the line , to find a young girl in a dark blue uniform with a royal crest above her heart hovering over him . |
| 4 | Jane was horrified when Erwin drove up in a Land Rover which had been given to the charity by a large company , and which he had appropriated . |
| 5 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 6 | After months of experimentation he came up with a vanilla ice cream bar on a stick , bonded with cocoa butter to a coating of chocolate . |
| 7 | The few feminists who did consider the problem of women 's domestic labour came up with a collectivist solution similar to that of Beveridge . |
| 8 | Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps she did , and when she came up against a brick wall she turned to me . |
| 10 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 11 | Suddenly someone opened up with a machine gun at us . |
| 12 | The first door to port opened up into a food store , the corresponding door to starboard was locked . |
| 13 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 14 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 15 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 16 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 17 | Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago . |
| 18 | In 1959 Dean Martin turned up in a Sinatra film , Some Come Running , having been wandering in the Hollywood wilderness since breaking up with his former screen buddy Jerry Lewis . |
| 19 | Corporal Philip Ainsworth and Lance Corporal Andrew Zolden turned up in a 27-tonne Foden six-wheeler capable of hauling a light battle tank with its remote-control crane . |
| 20 | At Leipzig , Betty Israel saw a baby handed up through a carriage window . |
| 21 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 22 | All fired up for a marathon effort |
| 23 | Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road . |
| 24 | Preparing the campsite also involved some ingenious engineering , with a large pivoted chockstone winched up on a Friend belay to create enough headroom . |
| 25 | Her barbed comment died unspoken as Anna straightened up from a glass cabinet . |
| 26 | John 's mother , Maria , who had often earned her living as a seamstress , made the lavish costumes ; the cream-coloured dresses made up in a pinafore smock style reaching just below the knee . |
| 27 | With a great qualm mining at him inwardly , Cameron got up on a tree stump and said his piece . |
| 28 | The old keyboard overlay goes back on top , raised up by a plastic cowling , and you stick the whole lot together with the sticky pads . |
| 29 | Selkirk — also on six points but having played one game more than both GH-K and Stirling County — snatched two points at Riverside Park a fortnight ago and followed up with a Border League success against Kelso last Friday in which they scored four glorious tries and were further heartened by the return from serious injury of Rodney Pow and Graham Marshall . |
| 30 | This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window . |