Example sentences of "[vb past] up [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Guido drew up abruptly at the side of the road . |
| 4 | And he moved up here after the war , World War One . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She tensed up immediately at the prospect of seeing him again , but when she turned right round her heart flipped idiotically in her chest . |
| 12 | He woke up again in the middle of the night and |
| 13 | I woke up early in the morning and remembered about Boris and the cupboard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the train journey , it came up somewhere near the Prestonpans Power Station , but it was no use trying to mention that . ] |
| 17 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 18 | The question of borrowing covered top cars came up again in the autumn of 1931 . |
| 19 | Sandy came up only on the front of the green but made three . |
| 20 | Ruth went down , then climbed up again into the dunes , wondering how she was going to find Adam . |
| 21 | Jack 's first-class debut for the Palace was the first Southern League match when soccer opened up again after the War , against Northampton Town at The Nest on 30 August 1919 ( 2–2 ) . |
| 22 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 23 | One family from Rouen , a couple with their young daughter , turned up here in the village . |
| 24 | Every head turned up automatically at the sound of the furnace engine . |
| 25 | Rigby was surprised when Gedge turned up beforehand at the town 's Tesco stores where she had a Saturday job . |
| 26 | Hundreds of car enthusiasts turned up today for the South Lincolnshire Motor Show . |
| 27 | Few turned up regularly for the lectures . |
| 28 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 29 | For months afterwards copies of forms turned up all over the Manchester office . |
| 30 | She was very disappointed , but faced up bravely to the situation . |