Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 2 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 3 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 4 | Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres ? |
| 5 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 6 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 7 | Jonathon Pendrous ; by day a cleaner clearing up the stage after other peoples ' glory , but by night when the actors have gone home , and the audience has left the theatre to its ghostly past … |
| 8 | If I said to John and Joanne erm that I saw a boy running up the ginnel no you understand ? |
| 9 | She may take quite a while adding up the wine list . ’ |
| 10 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 11 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 12 | First , through the City with a policeman holding up the traffic with an impassive countenance which implied that he would do the same for the Seventh Day Adventists , the Anti-Vivisection Society or the Paddington Communist Party . |
| 13 | So again in London we spent nearly a week setting up the microphones and rehearsing . |
| 14 | The camera work is superb and I must especially commend to you all the final shots of the film which show a train heading up the Talerddig incline taken from a nearby hillside . |
| 15 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 16 | ‘ This equipment is like a lighthouse sweeping up the hydrocarbons from all around it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | There is no pronounced tug of any kind , just a tremor coming up the line that feels as though someone is drawing a hacksaw blade across it . |
| 18 | But whereas the faces all around were pale , or a smooth golden bronze from holidays chasing the winter sun , his was ruddy , weathered , the creases radiating from the eyes suggesting a life soaking up the glare of the sun and wind . |
| 19 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 20 | Britain , France , Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed a treaty selling up the Brussels Treaty Organisation for mutual military aid . |
| 21 | As I leaned further I felt a hand sliding up the inside of my left thigh . |
| 22 | A little way along , I saw a path running up the bank to my left and on the top of this bank there was a rather eccentric mock-Gothic porchway . |
| 23 | Hence a reader looking up the definition of a word such as dogs would find the relevant information stored under the word dog . |
| 24 | We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew . |
| 25 | It was such a fuss putting up the stand and then filling and emptying the bath . |