Example sentences of "[vb past] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blue shape that swam up in the doorway . |
| 2 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 3 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 4 | When Jed drew up in the alley behind Mitch 's place , he saw an oil-lamp glowing in the kitchen window . |
| 5 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 6 | Outside , the bad dog recommenced barking rather savagely as a car drew up in the yard . |
| 7 | But as Percy Makepeace twittered through the hall and down the corridor with his clerical acquaintance , two more cars drew up in the Burleigh driveway . |
| 8 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 9 | He took no notice , but turned in and drew up in the courtyard . |
| 10 | Then a car drew up in the courtyard and at the same time the telephone rang . |
| 11 | We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead . |
| 12 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 13 | This does mean , of course , that there is no control over the model 's yaw axis ( rudder to you fixed-wing flyers ) during the descent , although the natural weathercock effect of the fuselage will keep it lined up in the direction of flight . |
| 14 | To the accompaniment of shouts and screams from the Corporals , we lined up in the corridor and were counted and recounted by them . |
| 15 | They caught up in the air did n't they ? |
| 16 | But as the fear of invasion receded and the public outrage at the scandals of the Arandora Star and the Dunera made itself known , refugees moved up in the War Office estimation . |
| 17 | When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea . |
| 18 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 19 | Huge backlogs of work built up in the securities dealers ' back offices as deals could not be completed within the exchange 's usual accounts periods . |
| 20 | Massive bottle-necks built up in the early spring on the railway network , at Koslov , west of Saratov on the route to Moscow and particularly at Balashov , between Saratov and Tsaritsyn on the west side of the Volga . |
| 21 | Hitler 's extraordinary popular standing , built up in the peacetime years on the foundations of his perceived personal achievement in overcoming economic and political crisis , ridding Germany of unemployment , and making the nation great again through an astonishing series of diplomatic coups , was maintained in the first phase of the war ; it was then even further elevated through the scarcely conceivable run of military victories attained with minimal loss and sacrifice and , not least , through the prospect he continued to hold up of an imminent glorious end to the war . |
| 22 | In Honduras , the pressures of a growing debt crisis built up in the late 1980s . |
| 23 | The most obvious targets are the unwieldy conglomerates built up in the late 1960 's and early 1970's which still represent an area of managerial weakness in the British ( and U.S. ) economy . |
| 24 | This came partly from that confidence built up in the wide affection of the large family , partly perhaps from the arrogance of the supreme athlete , mostly , though , from his view that writing and learning were the real thing : acting was fine and dandy but not in the same league . |
| 25 | When I regained control , telling myself , ‘ It 's OK , you 're not taped , you 're not in the truck , ’ I was always left with a residue of remembered fear , which built up in the back of my mind . |
| 26 | Slowly , an image built up in the mirrored lens . |
| 27 | This built up finance , but , perhaps more importantly , built up in the community a knowledge of the organisation and about deafness . |
| 28 | The awful triumvirate of fear , guilt and anger has to be faced and the tension built up in the body dealt with . |
| 29 | It is an interesting question to ask why , in a formal organisation built up in the ‘ classical , hierarchical manner , there should be so many levels of management . |
| 30 | From London to Canterbury the traffic was solid and the fumes that built up in the car made her head ache . |