Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bike shot up in the air . |
| 2 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 3 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 4 | The failure of the insurgents to secure the country 's political and economic nerve-centres , the provision of German and Italian military aid and the resistance put up by the defenders of Republican legality had turned the insurrection into a war whose duration or outcome no one could foretell . |
| 5 | The clerk stared up at the clear blue sky . |
| 6 | I was just sticking one of the mouse heads back on when the birds went up into the evening air , kaw-calling and screaming , wheeling over the path through the dunes where it went near their nests . |
| 7 | ‘ The Führer came up with the idea . |
| 8 | This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope . |
| 9 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 10 | As though by an immaculately timed piece of theatre , the driver pulled up opposite the front entrance to New Scotland Yard . |
| 11 | The fight put up by the Health and Safety Commission to get more money saw niggardly extra funding at the end of the last year . |
| 12 | The skin ended up in the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen and it was only when the corpse was examined that it was discovered that sulukongur was in fact a female ! |
| 13 | No one noticed for a month , until the contamination showed up at the filters on the primary water circuit . |
| 14 | The awful triumvirate of fear , guilt and anger has to be faced and the tension built up in the body dealt with . |
| 15 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 16 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 17 | The industry grew up on the strength of local timber and water supplies . |
| 18 | The industry grew up in the Lake District because there was a demand for gunpowder in the slate quarries and copper mines of the region , and because of the ready availability of birch and alder for charcoal and fast flowing becks to drive the machinery in the area . |
| 19 | The Sheikha looked up to the sun . |
| 20 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 21 | Foreign trade responded to the opportunities opened up by the outlets to the Baltic and later the Black Sea , grain becoming the major export . |
| 22 | The opportunities opened up by the technical innovations are so large and exciting that it is hard to grasp the full extent of the change . |
| 23 | Rachaela looked out at the dusk on the snow street , and the snow piled up against the walls , the pedestrians slipping and sidling along the ice . |
| 24 | The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink . |
| 25 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 26 | Since the coalition broke up after the defeat of Germany there is no way of knowing how the policy outlined in the full employment promise of May 1944 might have been implemented without the profound changes in the role of the State in peacetime economic life introduced by the post-war Labour government . |
| 27 | The president got up from the chair and came round the table , his hand outstretched in the Western style . |
| 28 | The figure curled up in the chair by the fire , stirred and yawned toothlessly . |
| 29 | The wind whistled up round the corner past the supermarket to Stormy Hill . |
| 30 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |