Example sentences of "and [verb] up [prep] [art] [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 | We spent a day ashore on Barentsøya where the Dutch party went off inland on their own and met up with a polar bear with two cubs , which ran off when they saw the party . |
| 8 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 11 | Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One startling apparition a few seats away was masked , and got up like a Chinese mandarin , with clacking claws for hands emerging from generous silk sleeves . |
| 14 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 15 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 18 | This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write . |
| 19 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 20 | Thus , once again , there is considerable potential for teachers to become confused between the relative demands of these two quite different approaches to moderation and caught up in a great deal of additional work . |
| 21 | Now John Burnett found his good-natured and impressionable son falling under the spell of two far more intelligent men of dubious opinions , and caught up in a wild scheme for emigration to America . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 24 | They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top . |
| 25 | And ending up with a thumping great lie . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ; |
| 30 | 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 . |