Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 2 | So as you come up to a roundabout , you 're thinking of the exit or exits . |
| 3 | As she warmed up for a short recital in the prison 's dining hall , Evelyn said : ‘ Music is incredible medicine for every human being in some sort of way or another . |
| 4 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 5 | She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds . |
| 6 | All of a sudden , Alfred strike one karate pose there and leap one leap on the front man , knocking him down , grabbed his machine gun and with two more leaps he was past them and through us as we open up like a black red sea and close again . |
| 7 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 8 | The vehicles were fired upon by two men in civilian clothes as they pulled up to a T-junction . |
| 9 | Gayle , sent off during Birmingham 's Anglo-Italian Cup clash with Lucchese on Wednesday , has called on the players to toughen up as they face up to a New Year relegation battle . |
| 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 | Then , as it grows up in a normal , average temperature , the hotter area of its body — its central trunk region — remains pale in colour , while its cooler extremities become gradually darker . |
| 12 | ‘ Barns to the right , grooms ’ quarters to the left , Alejandro 's straight ahead , ’ said Luke as he drove up to a large ugly mulberry-red house with flowerbeds full of clashing red tulips , primulas and wallflowers , and a water tower completely submerged in variegated ivy . |
| 13 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 14 | He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’ |
| 15 | Even this was no pushover as he laybacked up towards a line of large intimidating roofs . |