Example sentences of "it [vb past] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I can honestly say it lived up to every good word , every tribute , for despite the event being played out in an unrelenting , warm , monsoon-like downpour , with the playing area akin to one great mud-wrestling arena , it was a superb spectacle . |
| 2 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 3 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 4 | It added up to an emphatic win by 137 runs , in the first of the tourists ' warm-up matches before Sunday 's opening Nehru Cup match against Sri Lanka . |
| 5 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
| 6 | It came up with a risky and controversial course of action : close the county 's ‘ surplus ’ long-stay residential homes and reinvest in specialist community-based services for elderly people . |
| 7 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 8 | It popped up in a recent Capes , Dunn sale of toys , teddy bears , model railways et al and made £190 . |
| 9 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 10 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 11 | She was about to reach for her drink when she caught sight of the car out of the corner of her eye as it pulled up on the opposite side of the road — a white BMW , identical to the one her uncle had . |
| 12 | As night fell on Stabiae , Vesuvius presented an awesome sight , with the oppressively heavy ash cloud above it lit up in a baleful red glare from the many fires that had been started by the rain of hot ash . |
| 13 | And then , when he could n't step back any further , he would walk forward , watching the shadow shrink before him until it ended up as a small and pathetic figure beneath his feet . |
| 14 | Then we did n't achieve , we 're did n't produce a work plan or organiser , we went straight in , people were hacking out bits of papers , you know , it ended up as a big pile of words you know . |