Example sentences of "[vb base] [v-ing] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Tate said although they felt quite safe on the eighth floor it was disconcerting to see armed security guards and smoke bellowing up through the skyscrapers .
2 Parties then with noise , just imagine going up to the door where there are fifty or sixty seething people in there .
3 Over the summer , word of mouth made Quadrant Park one of the most queued-for nights in the north ; now coachloads from Glasgow , Newcastle and even Manchester begin lining up amid the warehouses and oil tanks at 8pm .
4 I remember driving up to the Hall one evening about three weeks before he died .
5 Pop and I remember going up to the captain 's cabin after you had gone to bed and eating lovely bala chaung sandwiches .
6 I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream .
7 Go left , down , right , then fall down , push the crate onto the button and go up on the lift , then left along the lower platform , push the crate left onto the switch , fall down , then go up on the lift , collect the speaker , fall down , go right and up on the lift , go left along the top platform , go up and left , go up on the lift , and continue going up on the platforms .
8 They keep landing up in the middle .
9 No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself
10 You can not feel the elastic around your ankles when you are falling , just the rushing of the wind past your face , then suddenly the elastic goes tight and you go shooting up towards the platform again .
11 They eat standing up in the kitchen .
12 One week before an election , they start cuddling up to the Liberals for support .
13 ‘ One week before a general election , they start cuddling up to the Liberals for support .
14 They chuck all these people out of mental hospitals on the excuse that everyone in the community is spontaneously going to start looking after them — and surprise , surprise , they start turning up on the night shelter circuit .
15 before we start getting up to the kind of figures where we can actually see a you know
16 It depends what conditions are like when we start climbin' up to the pass . ’
17 If yours has n't reached you by the end of July , or you live outside the London area but fancy coming up for the occasion , please phone Pensions Department on freefone 0800 262 072 .
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