Example sentences of "up in [art] lift " in BNC.

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1 Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift .
2 He was the sort of man who , when caught riding up in a lift in Rio 's rather staid and old-fashioned Copacabana Palace Hotel with a lady whose skin was some forty shades darker than Alexander 's own pink and cream , told a desk clerk who remonstrated that ‘ ladies ’ were not allowed in guest bedrooms , ‘ What do you mean by ‘ ladies ’ ?
3 The administrator took us one floor up in a lift big enough to ferry a helicopter to the roof .
4 On the way up in the lift she was herself again and kissed him hurriedly between floors .
5 He would go up in the lift .
6 We three travelled up in the lift of the Hotel Vancouver together and perhaps just to make conversation I mentioned my trip to the Haida reservation and my feelings about the neglect of our Indians .
7 ‘ Coming up in the lift I met Mr Smithkins .
8 He went into the building , up in the lift to the fifth floor , and called a conference among his senior colleagues .
9 I remember you taking me there to lunch when I was small and I threw up in the lift . ’
10 She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off .
11 Does this mean that as I am going up in the lift , I see it expanding ? ’
12 He went up in the lift and sat down in Irina 's pleasant office .
13 While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's .
14 ‘ So we all go up in the lift , and the two bucks as good as carry the mother 's boy into the room ; he 's almost completely gone , and they sit him on the bed and they pour some of the champagne down him and then they come out .
15 It cheers me up as I come up in the lift and stagger out blinking in the daylight .
16 He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift .
17 Riding up in the lift , she was prickling with heat from head to foot , intensely aware of his lean , powerful body beside her .
18 When they were riding up in the lift , Damian said , ‘ I think we should go over the minutes together . ’
19 But er there was a lot there was a lot of girls and th I do n't know what had what had happened but I mean , that was the worst thing , he 'd went up in the lift and there was quite there was some other the rest of the people in the lift er was trapped and was burned to death you know , tragic end .
20 Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed
21 We 'll go up in the lift , alright ?
22 straight up in the lift to my bedroom and it was lovely you know , yeah in the hot , in the swimming pa pool
23 The higher you go , the less we 've got ta go up in the lift , or up the stairs .
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