Example sentences of "up [coord] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , she sat up and looked the big rascal right in the eye . |
| 2 | He hung up and got the last volume of the bigger directory from the rack under the table . |
| 3 | He had bent down , his hand among the grasses but as she spoke he straightened up and thrust a grubby fist into his pocket . |
| 4 | Elizabeth looked up and saw a brown uniform and a friendly face , framed in the lovely black hair typical of the Maltese . |
| 5 | He looked up and saw a wooden stave falling towards his head . |
| 6 | I looked up and saw a big-ribbed canopy of light pink and white descending over me , and the next moment I felt myself drawn downward , feet first , and I realised that I was being swallowed by a whale . |
| 7 | Carl looked up and saw the young air hostess . |
| 8 | Carl looked up and saw the young air hostess staring at them . |
| 9 | Then he looked up and saw the great rat . |
| 10 | But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it . |
| 11 | Suddenly , there was a commotion at the door and I looked up and saw the skinny preacher walk in . |
| 12 | When he looked up and saw the charging buffalo , Joseph raised his Winchester in an instinctive reflex action and dropped to his knees . |
| 13 | Clare looked up and saw the tallest man she had ever seen ; he had curly black hair and black-lashed , dark brown eyes , now filled with worry . |
| 14 | He would n't miss her right away , and even if he looked up and saw the empty stool he 'd probably assume she was inside the hut . |
| 15 | ‘ No it 's the phone , ’ said Ellen , who picked it up and had a pretend conversation in her undifferentiated monotone . |
| 16 | Suddenly , a complete stranger jumped up and said an impromptu prayer for John , and then another . |
| 17 | " Well , " Ajayi said , leaving the open entrance to the balcony as a light wind picked up and blew a small flurry of snow around her booted feet , " at least the game 's over . " |
| 18 | Nigel , always ready for action , leapt up and seized the big jug of water . |
| 19 | He jumped up and tipped the flaming toast into the sink . |
| 20 | The small group halted as Springfield and the other ran up and formed a loose throng around them . |
| 21 | Are they pieces of parent body that broke up and sent a special type of debris into a path crossing the orbit of the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago but which is no longer falling on the Earth ? |
| 22 | Jack looked up and wiped a grubby hand wearily over his face , streaking the dirt still further . |
| 23 | Australian railways took up and developed the Italianate style which had been so influential in Britain and the United States earlier in the century , and by the time the principal Australian stations were built , classical was in style once more . |
| 24 | He picked it up and tapped the old tobacco out onto the range . |
| 25 | Robyn looked up and forced a sarcastic smile . |
| 26 | ‘ They tried to play our style of basketball and it worked our guys up and brought a competitive edge out of them . ’ |
| 27 | Joe got out slowly , stiffly , and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air . |
| 28 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 29 | The grey sidled up and took the proffered titbit and then suddenly bucked and danced away . |
| 30 | The Colonel strode up and took the dead woman in his arms . |