Example sentences of "it [vb past] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 3 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 6 | It popped up in a recent Capes , Dunn sale of toys , teddy bears , model railways et al and made £190 . |
| 7 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 8 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |