Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 2 | Firemen took to boats to reach those trapped in their homes as water rose up to door-top level . |
| 3 | He watched her go down Newcastle Place with the bird cage in her arms , and pity rose up like yeasty dough in his chest , restricting his breath . |
| 4 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 5 | The inventory of the museum 's contents that he drew up with such meticulous care , accompanying his sections for each room with an admirable sketch showing the location of each item , remained in use and he catalogued the museum 's large collection of drawings by Robert Adam [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Two old cars drew up with eight children and two anxious-looking mothers inside . |
| 7 | The car drew up at one of the big houses on the prosperous shore road , facing the grassy slope that led up to the promenade . |
| 8 | The procedure was in line with ethical guidelines that the Queen Victoria Medical Centre drew up in 1980 ( New Scientist . |
| 9 | In the final quarter of an hour more than forty parties drew up in this same agitation ; and the closer they were to the final minute , the wilder their excitement to give in their cards . |
| 10 | The van drew up in Pretty Street and Miss Poraway and Mrs Abigail got out , Miss Poraway still talking about the cartoon , saying it would tickle her brother when she told him about it . |
| 11 | A more general indication of his interests is given by the catalogue of his library , which he drew up in 1632 , when he had just moved house to Long Acre , Covent Garden . |
| 12 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 13 | They drew up before one of a pair of red brick semi-detached houses in a street of other houses like it . |
| 14 | They lined up like some firing-squad as Messrs Shepherd and Palmer did their best to explain the situation , but only television slo-mo replays would have convinced the sternest of the doubters . |
| 15 | We lined up behind old ‘ Beachie ’ as he was known and off we went around the City streets . |
| 16 | Loulou charged up to each new arrival , thumping and hugging in a demonstrative greeting . |
| 17 | In the old days , before the Leader , thought Davide , the law swelled up through chronic feuding and the only respite came in the prelude to the great feast days , when families had no more money to pay lawyers ' services because the priests were taking it instead . |
| 18 | In spite of the size and complexity of the companies examined , which ranged up to 10 divisions and 40 businesses , but in one case had 27 divisions and 150 businesses , all the planning departments considered scanning for environmental information about every business unit to be important . |
| 19 | At the end of November 1973 , over 16,000 were outstanding , and the average period from receipt to decisions ranged up to sixty-five weeks ( for cases decided by the secretary of state after a local inquiry ) . |
| 20 | It was a calm , windless and hazy morning as we left Clapham and headed up through two dark tunnels along the old Drove Road of Thwaite Lane , a continuation of the medieval monastic highway that crossed the Dales , linking the lands of Fountains Abbey . |
| 21 | The hunger strike involved up to 350 students plus thousands of supporters camped in tents in Kiev 's October Revolution Square and on the steps of the parliament building . |
| 22 | It was a very happy meeting , as we caught up on all that had happened since those distant Bideford days . |
| 23 | You will need a detective , be it a police officer or some individual caught up for good reason in the investigation , who is capable of seeing deeply into people 's characters , of putting himself like Simenon 's Maigret into , not so much other people 's hoes , as into other people 's minds and souls . |
| 24 | On the other hand , there was the reflection that all universities , through their senates — composed of academics drawn from all subjects taught in the university — were responsible for keeping a self-critical eye on their own work , and it was time in this sense that the public sector caught up with established university practice . |
| 25 | FRENCH exports of wines and spirits fell last year for the first time in 20 years as recession caught up with one of the country 's proudest industries . |
| 26 | Here the dirt of the steamer , and the filth of the station , caught up with poor Mig who went down with dysentery . |
| 27 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 28 | Readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill informed about polls before the campaign but caught up with highbrow readers later . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Villa moved up into third place , level on points with Manchester United and three points adrift of Norwich . |
| 30 | Until her retirement in 1982 the huge machine moved up to 140,000 tonnes of mud each year . |