Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 2 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 3 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 4 | I blame the fact that a crow chose to hover below me as I scrambled up a tricky bit of path , made more perilous by loose shifting gravel . |
| 5 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 6 | But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't believe these ropes , ’ said Steve , as I cambered up the free end . |
| 8 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 9 | a curtain , as you pass up the dark mild street , |
| 10 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 11 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 12 | Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter . |
| 13 | At the same time , no power-dressed working woman would be seen dead without her higher heeled shoes — both to stamp on the toes of the men as she stepped up the corporate ladder and to balance her wide , padded shoulders . |
| 14 | ‘ I loathe and detest you , Luke Travis , ’ Merrill whispered later , as she hung up the pink dress . |
| 15 | For the next couple of years , Sinitta was dog-less as she ran up an amazing string of chart hits with the guidance of the nowlegendary Stock , Aitken and Waterman . |
| 16 | She preserved a dignified silence as she gathered up the trailing dressing-gown in one hand and kept the other on the rail attached to the wall on one side of the staircase . |
| 17 | Her heart was hammering as she went up the narrow , cheerless stairs she 'd last climbed before her interview . |
| 18 | ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm . |
| 19 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 20 | She was concentrating on the speed and length which her stride might attain as she hurried up the long slope . |
| 21 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 22 | It shone through , not only by the dedication she demonstrated to earn her outstanding successes internationally in both lawn tennis and golf but — in a way — even more so as she faced up the cruel two-year reality of fighting a terminal illness until her recent death at the age of 45 . |
| 23 | As she stood up an empty wine bottle clattered off the bench and rolled down the pavement . |
| 24 | But it did n't stop him bumping into her every five minutes as she set up the slithering plastic tent , the heaters . |
| 25 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 26 | Theresa Stevens , 21 , was beaten , repeatedly stabbed and strangled as she put up a desperate fight to save herself . |
| 27 | ’ Gertrude lowered her voice as she yielded up the spiciest morsel of her story . |
| 28 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 29 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 30 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |