Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] up [art] [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 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As I dug up a bronze Roman belt-stud , I realised that the site was a mixture of historical periods . |
| 9 | She stopped as I held up a finger . |
| 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 | I ca n't as soon as you warmed up the pie |
| 13 | ‘ There was a lot to do with telephones , ’ says Ian , ‘ like you could turn down the stereo as you picked up the phone ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Whatever else was wrong with him he was at least honest , Carrie thought as she ran up the town . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lucien watched her as she gathered up the sticks . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope . |
| 21 | Sophie nodded as she cleaned up the wound , then , after giving an injection of antibiotic , she stood for a moment in thought . |
| 22 | As she collected up the plates and covers herself and went without Miss Vine 's twelve p , the face of Timothy Gedge appeared in her mind , causing her to feel sick in the stomach . |
| 23 | From under the chair I watched as she scooped up the mess into a cloth , and dropped it in the bin . |
| 24 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 25 | Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope . |
| 26 | Miss Harker was a little out of breath as she rolled up the petition . |
| 27 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 28 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |
| 29 | She looked very young and pretty as she held up the teapot and Francis Morgan hesitated , then sat down , heavily , and seized two biscuits . |
| 30 | But Miss Angus slapped her wrist sharply with a teaspoon , as she picked up a paperback with her other hand and examined it closely . |