Example sentences of "[vb past] up into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole house smelled of it , of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust . |
| 2 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 3 | Detail by detail built up into a formidable possibility , in which , nevertheless , he did not believe . |
| 4 | The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come . |
| 5 | The relationships can now be changed , delays between activities inserted and the whole built up into a complex network that can be displayed as a PERT chart by using the optional unit . |
| 6 | Parts of its head wrinkled up into a half frown . |
| 7 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 8 | Adam came up into a kneeling position and waited for the bus to start moving . |
| 9 | From there , after a change of buses and yet another lunch-time fast , the road climbed up into a bare landscape of mountains sweeping into each other , before it settled into the endless vistas of the high altiplano , a treeless puna 3,962 metres above sea level ; home for llamas , alpacas and the Aymara Indians . |
| 10 | The first door to port opened up into a food store , the corresponding door to starboard was locked . |
| 11 | Her freckles joined up into an even tan — nothing excessive , the colour of lightly browned toast would do . |
| 12 | Windows were smashed clean out in fourth-floor dressing rooms as actor and understudy flared up into a fight . |
| 13 | Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road . |
| 14 | Citizens , whipped up into a fervour of indignation , simply stopped doing as they were told : started bringing horses noisily in by night for deliveries , not washing the sidewalks and so forth , just for the hell of it . |
| 15 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 16 | the water all over his self with the wings , with his wings , then he flew up into a tree to tie |
| 17 | They were dull-eyed and fur clad , with hair bound up into a bunch at the crown and the rattle of bones and polished stones around their limbs . |
| 18 | She wandered , hands in jeans , hair pulled up into a workmanlike topknot , and simply enjoyed the rough , uncultivated feel of the land . |
| 19 | As she drove away her heart speeded up into an erratic , agitated rhythm . |
| 20 | He went quickly to sleep with the lights still all on , his body hot and rigid , curled up into a tight ball , and his eyes screwed up tight . |
| 21 | Willie crawled under the bed and curled up into a ball . |
| 22 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |
| 23 | As the emergency airlock hatch slid shut , Christine curled up into a floating ball and was violently sick . |
| 24 | She curled up into a small ball , too tired to stay awake , but too scared to go to sleep in case she started to dream again . |
| 25 | And curled up into a questionmark . |
| 26 | Paul lay in the sunlight curled up into a little ball , quite still , and Blyth was lying on his stomach , hands under his cheek , the stump of his left leg drawn up in the flowers and the grass , sticking out from his shorts like some monstrous erection . |
| 27 | The battle broke up into a series of duels across the skies of Scotland , from Edinburgh to North Berwick . |
| 28 | The arrow formation soon broke up into a ragged line , with Premiere on the outside , pampering on the inner and Upper Gumtree still just in front . |
| 29 | For a moment he stared , and then his face broke up into a huge smile . |
| 30 | And seeing the multitudes , he went up into a mountain and when he was set , his disciples came unto him . |