Example sentences of "[vb past] up [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon the Malthusian spectre rose up again as populations soared . |
| 2 | To his right the hill rose up above where he stood , then fell again to meet the next turn of the river . |
| 3 | Hydraulic pressure built up slowly until the door wheezed open . |
| 4 | A few days ago a woman woke up just as she was about to be stuffed with the previous day 's New York Post and varnished with embalming fluid by an undertaker . |
| 5 | He woke up only when his mother slammed the front door as she went out to church . |
| 6 | All messed up again after I just cleaned you up ! |
| 7 | And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough . |
| 8 | So , er Nicola was born and er the court either came up just before your dad had the after Nicola was born , when she was a month old . |
| 9 | He only came up here cos they were closing . |
| 10 | She jumped and came up short as the rope went taut . |
| 11 | Foinavon passed the post with his ears pricked and that night he ate up just as usual . |
| 12 | ‘ You turned up here because you thought I was about to inherit enough money to stage your movie comeback ! ’ |
| 13 | Already the flames showed up vividly though there was no other indication of the failing light . |
| 14 | A degree of surprise was expressed when McEnroe showed up here after a knee injury had forced his withdrawal from last month 's grand prix event in San Francisco . |
| 15 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 16 | Following President Galtieri 's 75% increase of the levy on non-Argentine mining interests around the South Pole , violence flared up again as British wildcat oilmen tried to even the score after their resounding defeat in the Malvinas War of 1981 . |
| 17 | The war came first , though anti-Chinese sentiment flared up periodically as the numbers of Chinese engaged in British ports continued to rise to 8,182 in 1914 and 14,224 in 1915 , increased by the diversion to the west of ships normally operating east of Suez . |
| 18 | We met up again when I was working in television . |
| 19 | He straightened up easily as he spoke , and the lidded gaze moved laconically down over the outline of her body beneath the thin bedcover . |
| 20 | Local authorities would be obliged to allocate 15 per cent of council housing to people from depressed areas , and in areas where council housing made up less than 20 per cent of housing , the local authority would be obliged to make a 15 per cent contribution to its construction . |
| 21 | She got up later than he did because she went to sleep later , tossing and sometimes weeping , and in the end usually fumbling her way downstairs to get herself a drink . |
| 22 | She got up shortly after , and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 23 | We got up long before it was necessary , impeding all the sandwich-making and hard-boiling of eggs that was going on . |
| 24 | She had never used an iron nor threaded a needle , been on a bus nor cooked a meal for other people , earned money , got up early because she had to , waited to see the doctor or stood in a queue . |
| 25 | Corner goes in deep Pearce getting up well and Ward got up better than anyone and good safe hands as well by the keeper . |
| 26 | Furthermore , a brisk black market sprang up immediately as people without savings bought old Rbs50 and Rbs100 notes for a fraction of their face value . |
| 27 | They glanced up curiously as the Kubelwagen arrived , rising to their feet when they saw Schellenberg 's uniform . |
| 28 | She glanced up briefly as David Ryker passed her , his leather jacket undone . |
| 29 | The heavy clouds were edging nearer , and Jessamy glanced up uneasily as they got out of the car . |
| 30 | Then again you may be taken from the detention centre to Pentonville Prison and locked up there if you complain . |