Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For a moment there was silence , then the boy spoke again , the whole of him gathered up into the movement of his lips . |
| 2 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |
| 3 | I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism . |
| 4 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 5 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 6 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 7 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 8 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 9 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
| 10 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
| 11 | He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing . |
| 12 | ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet . |
| 13 | When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty . |
| 14 | ‘ He slept like a log and when he got up in the morning and saw the car had gone he was very upset , ’ said a source . |
| 15 | He straightened up from the binnacle and jabbed a finger painfully into my chest . |
| 16 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 17 | I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about . |
| 18 | He gazed up in the air and appeared to be musing to the ceiling . |
| 19 | When I was a lad a man went in the ar , he hooked up with the army if he 'd got no trade and no hope |
| 20 | He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him . |
| 21 | He moved up to the counter with the air of a man who does n't like having to go through a routine once again but is prepared to do so , all right then here 's my card if you insist ! |
| 22 | Admitted to the livery in 1822 , he moved up through the ranks to become master in 1828–30 , thereafter sitting in the court of assistants . |
| 23 | He moved up through the system rapidly enough to make his mark without looking flashy . |
| 24 | He squared up to the putt once . |
| 25 | He caught up with the pair when they stopped to change getaway cars . |
| 26 | She stole a look at him ; he was looking grimmer by the minute — he would n't show any mercy once he caught up with the culprits . |
| 27 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 28 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 29 | He peered up into the mass of wires again , and gave one a poke . |
| 30 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |