Example sentences of "and [verb] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 2 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 3 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 4 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 5 | We carried a medical team with vehicles and back up for the medical team . |
| 6 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 7 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 8 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 9 | Heaven knows what pollution of the ocean is occurring in the form of emission of radionuclides , and building up in the various food chains in which plankton play a part . |
| 10 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 11 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 12 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 13 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 14 | Other writers have emphasized the narrow social strata from which judges are drawn and have questioned the degree to which they are able to relate to ordinary people and to stand up against the powerful and the rich . |
| 15 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 16 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 17 | In general , they tend to follow a more or less logical sequence , starting at the top with a headline ( assuming it is there ) and ending up in the bottom right-hand corner . |
| 18 | There are three basic considerations : ( 1 ) the need to avoid the consequences of a dissolution and winding up of the whole business ; ( 2 ) the need to define the circumstances in which leaving the partnership is permitted or made compulsory ; and ( 3 ) the need to anticipate the financial and administrative consequences of the departure of members of the firm . |
| 19 | All prisoners serving a year or more will be put on licence when released and supervised up to the three-quarter point of their sentence and , for some sex offenders until the end of their sentence ; |
| 20 | This lunchtime we 're missing a Co-op beer-tasting and nosh up at the excellent Dragon House Chinese restaurant in Newcastle these politicians have much for which to answer . |
| 21 | I sat on my bed feeling like the man who got drunk and woke up in the French foreign legion . |
| 22 | The train stopped there long enough for me to run along the line and climb up into the great diesel engine driven by Bert Coad from Perth and Hilton Hinchcliff from Kalgoorlie . |
| 23 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 24 | We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens . |
| 25 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 26 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 27 | ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try . |
| 28 | All of the administrative systems developed on behalf of the modular course have been designed and tested in-house , beginning with a simple program for pre-enrolment information and student progress on a microcomputer in 1972 and leading up to the large and sophisticated management system described in Chapter 7 . |
| 29 | Almost by reflex , McIlvanney and I take a corner table , and open up on the safe territory of swapping recriminations about our country 's lack of respect for the trade . |
| 30 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |