Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray . |
| 2 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 3 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 4 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 5 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 6 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |
| 7 | ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain . |
| 8 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 9 | The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver . |
| 10 | As I picked up the knife from the rubble by the table I was waking . |
| 11 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 12 | So get into the habit of really looking at the viewfinder picture as you line up the shot . |
| 13 | I his is the sort of individual who is eventually invited to become a board master and the system engenders a wonderful sense of anticipation , as you progress up the board towards the prime positions ; when you are going to have your special day , on your favourite loch . |
| 14 | As you pick up the flesh , squeeze it and apply as much pressure as you can tolerate , but not so much that you bruise the area . |
| 15 | I ca n't as soon as you warmed up the pie |
| 16 | So this is one further factor to consider as you weigh up the alternatives . |
| 17 | Yeah , as you as you heat up the water the gases boil out of it , so if wanted to get rid of the chlorine in your water , boiling it gets rid of quite a lot , it forces the chlorine t to boil out . |
| 18 | Now you might that will get us on T V and it it is also self financing as well in as much as you set up the promotion , the T V companies but it off you . |
| 19 | I believe it works marvellously , as long as you keep up the hormones . ’ |
| 20 | The most prominent , due west of the village of Lescun as you look up the valley , is the more or less pyramidal Pic d'Anie , of 8,200 feet , the first or most westerly of the major Pyrenean summits ; it is claimed by the Basques as their one high Pyrenee , the home of wild goats and the legendary source of storms . |
| 21 | ‘ There was a lot to do with telephones , ’ says Ian , ‘ like you could turn down the stereo as you picked up the phone ! ’ |
| 22 | As you open up the throttle , you need to move to the front of the boat to help it rise on to the plane . |
| 23 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 24 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
| 25 | Her thoughts were on the fact that it would be three months before she could move into her new abode , as she drove up the avenue . |
| 26 | Whatever else was wrong with him he was at least honest , Carrie thought as she ran up the town . |
| 27 | As she ran up the garden , her legs felt soft and boneless under her ; she had the terrible feeling that they might collapse altogether if she did n't hurry and find somewhere private , somewhere nice and safe and dark . |
| 28 | Lucien watched her as she gathered up the sticks . |
| 29 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 30 | Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope . |