Example sentences of "who [vb past] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 2 | It was finally Bob Morrow , one of the older racing correspondents on the Daily Telegraph , who came up with a lead . |
| 3 | Among the groups in Essex who carried on the tradition yesterday were members of the Great Tey Footpath Preservation Society and villagers from neighbouring Chappel , who teamed up for a 14-mile walk around the boundaries of the two parishes . |
| 4 | My partner for the event was the marvellous American player Muffin Spencer-Devlin , who turned up with a bag which had ‘ Save the Whales ’ written all over it . |
| 5 | Ed Behr says , ‘ You had a lot of people who were very young and very inexperienced , who showed up with a couple of cameras and there they were . |
| 6 | Paul Goodman , the American anarchist writer ; Stokeley Carmichael , the 26-year-old Trinidadian-born New Yorker whose black nationalism had just triumphed within SNCC ; Laing and Cooper ; Ginsberg-whose contribution took the form of a mantra , American radical journalists John Gerassi on the Third World ; Trotskyist theoretician Ernest Mandel ; William Burroughs ; Angela Davis , the Californian activist and academic ; the Marxist historian and biographer of Trotsky , Isaac Deutscher ; the San Francisco digger , Emmett Grogan , who popped up for a fringe meeting ‘ still loaded with the sleepiness of heroin' ; and Herbert Marcuse . |
| 7 | ‘ And who dressed up as a wino and held up the off-licence ? ’ asked Tim . |
| 8 | Marks & Spencer , having liberated breeding pigs from hard concrete cells to the great outdoors , tells fondly of the technologist who snuggled up in a sow 's couchette to comfort test the temperature of her new straw-bedded housing . |