Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If ever a sentence summed up the gale of change that is blasting through Yorkshire cricket this season it is that one . |
2 | Merchants came next , men and women , then a prostitute ; a beggar brought up the rear , these allegorical figures representing the inescapable gradations of decay . |
3 | The question was left open in Davies v Flackett [ 1973 ] RTR 8 , where the accused drove off without paying from a car park while a stranger held up the barrier . |
4 | At one point , a flare lit up the night sky . |
5 | A flare lit up the sky as Taff was talking , casting eerie shadows among the trees . |
6 | And a star-shell lit up the winter night sky … |
7 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
8 | A man came up the ladder from the engine room and Dickie opened his letter . |
9 | Several days before these events a ship came up the Ankh on the dawn tide and fetched up , among many others , in the maze of wharves and docks on the Morpork shore . |
10 | That 's where ye 'll be living — near our hospital behind Hill Street which runs parallel to Main Street , but a wee bit up the hillside . ’ |
11 | A shower livened up the pitch and the West Indian openers soon fell . |
12 | His size belied the touch of a new born babe and he gently coaxed the life back into the cold toes on my injured foot as a nurse cleaned up the cut hand . |