Example sentences of "[vb past] up [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blinking in the sunshine that fell on his face , Tug swam up out of the horrors of the darkness . |
| 2 | The rugged mountains rose up straight from the river banks and were shaded in greens and browns with gashes of copper where erosion has taken its toll . |
| 3 | Wild brown hills of heather and bracken rose up steeply behind the house , just beyond a red-jewelled fuchsia hedge and a grove of mysterious scrub oaks . |
| 4 | Rich raw smells of tar , rotting excrement , spices and brine rose up along with the sight of ship masts , looped sails , small boats beached on the first mud of the receding tide , sailors in striped breeches and greasy caps leaning on the wooden railings , others arm in arm on their way to the taverns , piled kegs and crates , winches , the last of the horsedrawn sleds and — a gathering knot of people beyond a bonded warehouse . |
| 5 | Guido drew up abruptly at the side of the road . |
| 6 | He charged up out of the canal and shook himself , splattering water everywhere . |
| 7 | And he moved up here after the war , World War One . |
| 8 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 9 | A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic . |
| 10 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 11 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 12 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 13 | With David Sims off injured , Gloucester 's supply of ball dried up late in the game and they were also playing into the cold wind . |
| 14 | She tensed up immediately at the prospect of seeing him again , but when she turned right round her heart flipped idiotically in her chest . |
| 15 | He woke up again in the middle of the night and |
| 16 | When I woke up back in the war , I could feel the difference at once . |
| 17 | I woke up early in the morning and remembered about Boris and the cupboard . |
| 18 | But by then she was so inwardly tense at the deception which through love and loyalty she had to perform that she barely noticed the grand buildings as she drove up out of the valley to where the town ended and a tarmacked road through woodland began . |
| 19 | The clutching hand lifted up out of the water , the dark pit beyond the open door : all the old , despairing images passed momentarily through her troubled mind … . |
| 20 | Mrs Marriage came up tentatively along the line of boats , making sure she caught her husband 's good eye before she moved into their circle of secrecy . |
| 21 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 22 | On the train journey , it came up somewhere near the Prestonpans Power Station , but it was no use trying to mention that . ] |
| 23 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 24 | The question of borrowing covered top cars came up again in the autumn of 1931 . |
| 25 | There was something else that came up out of the minutes . |
| 26 | Inside his head , beneath the odd blaze of hair , behind the reckless display of freckles , the same low horizon unrolled , the same milk-crate stacks of Council flats came up out of the east , like this , slowly turned , just so , and fell away into the west , like that … |
| 27 | Besides those who waited to journey together there were others who came up out of the forest alone and who seemed to belong there , men licensed by the Lord Warden to carry on their trade in certain parts of the forest , woodmen , trappers , charcoal burners , for the most part a silent surly sort of men who emerged from the forest , went briefly about their business , had little to say for themselves , and then disappeared into the solitude again . |
| 28 | As I came up out of the trough , the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier . |
| 29 | Sandy came up only on the front of the green but made three . |
| 30 | Ruth went down , then climbed up again into the dunes , wondering how she was going to find Adam . |