Example sentences of "and [vb past] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 2 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 3 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 4 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 5 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 6 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 7 | According to Virginia Cowles , he dropped with Lewes 's party , but others say that he was left at Kabrit as a result of injuries during training and met up with the survivors later . |
| 8 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 9 | and read up to the summer |
| 10 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 11 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 12 | Another day dawned and the mists from the river swirled and eddied round the banks and crept up to the house the Hanging Judge had built . |
| 13 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 14 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 15 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 16 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 17 | Marie pushed back her coffee and got up from the table . |
| 18 | She finished her drink and got up from the table . |
| 19 | He shook his head and got up from the table , taking his plate to the sink to rinse it . |
| 20 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 21 | A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants . |
| 22 | In 1737–8 he served on a committee of the Goldsmiths ’ Company , promoting the Plate Offences Act , and moved up through the hierarchy of the court , only failing to serve as prime warden . |
| 23 | She heard footsteps on the catwalk and peered up into the semi-darkness trying to get a fix on the German 's movements . |
| 24 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 25 | At Cajabamba we joined a slightly better road , and soon afterwards we turned west and headed up into the mountains through Huamachuco , climbing all the way . |
| 26 | He took no notice , but turned in and drew up in the courtyard . |
| 27 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 28 | He passed out , and woke up on the ground having fallen 1800 feet into a fir tree and five feet of snow . |
| 29 | It was sweet dreams all round but they went to sleep far too early — and woke up to the reality of elimination . |
| 30 | After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself . |