Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun] " 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 bomb blew up the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building and the nearby NatWest tower on April 24th , just as life in London 's financial centre was getting back to normal after a similar episode in April 1992 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She describes in precise detail the deserted country road in Mayobridge , County Down , where a mine blew up the Land-Rover he was travelling in . |
| 10 | A man came up the ladder from the engine room and Dickie opened his letter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | A shower livened up the pitch and the West Indian openers soon fell . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Great carts pulled by as many as six horses at a time came up the roads from the east and waited at Ridgery Butts until a party of people who wanted to cross the forest formed up so that they could travel together . |