Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 2 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
| 3 | I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I need some advice , after all , ’ Hilary said quietly as she walked up to the little group . |
| 5 | She may work within a paradigm , and not be uninfluenced by how her mind was formed as she grew up within the discipline of science . |
| 6 | Franca surveyed her long athletic bare legs and the smudge of the scar on her knee as she reached up to the high shelf of a cupboard . |
| 7 | Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift . |
| 8 | Tonight she was smiling as she stared up at the screen , and Buddie had given her money . |
| 9 | As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she began to apologise as she turned the lock and pulled back the door , ‘ I should have — ’ Then she stopped , speechless , as she stared up at the tall figure of Robert Sheldrake . |
| 11 | He saw the tiny shudder that went through her and felt himself go still as she went up to the horse and began to stroke its face , its flank . |
| 12 | Way in the background , Lucy could see Josie with her back to the door as she cleaned up around the makeup chair . |
| 13 | They laughed together , and as she locked up behind the girl Folly could n't help realising that that was something else she owed Luke , however indirectly . |
| 14 | As she cycled up to the ornate porch she always thought of chivalrous knights attending maidens dressed in high , pointed hats and long sweeping gowns . |
| 15 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 16 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 17 | As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her . |
| 18 | Relief and anger swept through her as she looked up into the familiar dark , scowling face . |
| 19 | The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study . |
| 20 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 21 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 22 | ‘ Would you ? ’ said Julia over her shoulder as she climbed up into the bus . |
| 23 | He grinned as she pushed up on the window sill , her head down , hair hanging blackly . |
| 24 | She might have succeeded in reaching him , but the tree was laden with apples and as she moved up among the higher branches where the fruit had almost ripened , apples began to cascade down . |
| 25 | As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint . |
| 26 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 27 | And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there . |
| 28 | As we drove up towards the Common , they looked at each other briefly , then looked away . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a part of my life , and I 'm never going to give it up , ’ I said as we hurried up through the copse . |
| 30 | Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’ |