Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the collapse of communism , moreover , a split opened up among the Communists . |
| 2 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 3 | I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire . |
| 4 | A clerk came up to the counter . |
| 5 | I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside . |
| 6 | He saluted a little man in tight trousers and a yachting cap , standing by a boat pulled up on the bank . |
| 7 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 8 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 9 | Jim was also unbeaten in Scotland in all other events and as a result ended up as the official No 1 in Scotland . |
| 10 | A dipper flew up from the burn as I emerged from the hut , his white breast flashing as he darted downstream . |
| 11 | Stacey nodded enthusiastically , then they all turned as a minibus pulled up at the main entrance . |
| 12 | Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all . |
| 13 | A car pulled up behind the Land Rover and disgorged Gareth and then Tremayne who moved like a tank across the earthy verge and rocked to a halt a yard away . |
| 14 | Outside , the bad dog recommenced barking rather savagely as a car drew up in the yard . |
| 15 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 16 | Then a car drew up in the courtyard and at the same time the telephone rang . |
| 17 | She had been on the run since her conversation with Jack , a steady stream of nasty fractures and frightened children and anxious parents , and then , shortly after two , just when things began to settle down and she thought she might actually get some lunch , a car screeched up into the entrance and a man jumped out , flung open the back of the car and half dragged , half carried a woman towards the doors . |
| 18 | I was almost at the corner of Stuart Street when a car slowed up into the corner of my eye . |
| 19 | By selling security X short and investing the proceeds in a portfolio made up of the risk-free asset and security Y , a riskless return may be obtained . |
| 20 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 21 | Right on cue , a butterfly flew up to the plants we were looking at and landed ! |
| 22 | But before she could dwell on it a vehicle pulled up at the office door . |
| 23 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |
| 24 | It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 25 | A cat curled up by the boot-scraper at the front door of the Prince 's headquarters where the sentry , a British redcoat , stooped to fondle the animal 's warm fur . |
| 26 | Hannana Siddiqui is a member of Southall Black Sisters , an organisation that supports Asian women facing domestic violence , and of Women Against Fundamentalism , a group set up in the wake of the Rushdie affair . |
| 27 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 28 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 29 | For lack of alternative parties or serious candidates with known individual characters to vote for , a gulf opened up between the isolated villagers on the one hand and the Roslavl' or Smolensk Party men on the other , intent on modelling themselves strictly on Smolensk or Moscow prototypes and on Moscow 's instructions . |
| 30 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |