Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose up on tiptoe , looking round for James , Allan , and the rest . |
| 2 | A bitter laugh rose up like bile in her throat . |
| 3 | ‘ For all at once there was a rumble and a roaring along the road in the mist , and the hooded crows rose up in alarm at the sound of it . |
| 4 | Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm . |
| 5 | Unwilling to allow legal reforms like the Catholic Relief Act 1793 ( which repealed some aspects of the Penal Laws ) to appease them , the movement rose up in rebellion in 1798 . |
| 6 | A huge curtain of grey cliff rose up in front of him , the lie of the ground making its appearance seem instant and magical , like scenery in a theatre . |
| 7 | The clouds rose up in front of God 's throne . |
| 8 | ‘ Peggy ’ James , the proprietor , a heavily built man and had a wooden leg — hence his nickname — but he was remarkably speedy to provide quick service when cars drew up for petrol from his one , hand-operated pump . |
| 9 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 10 | As the car drew up in front of the Lodge with a crunch of gravel , Detective Sergeant Allen strode out to meet them . |
| 11 | The huge wooden gates were opened by a legionnaire in combat kit with a FA-MAS assault rifle slung across his chest , and his beret tilted over his right eye ; we drew up in front of a five-storey building and got out . |
| 12 | It was raining as we drew up in front of the building and started unpacking our kit . |
| 13 | He drew up in front of a pair of wrought-iron gates where he was immediately challenged by a bearded man wearing jeans and a faded black T-shirt . |
| 14 | When he brought her back he just drew up in front of the villa , jumped out , opened door , kissed hand , ‘ Bon soir , Madame , ’ and he was off . |
| 15 | Across the road , a taxi drew up in front of the august jewellers and a man in pinstripe trousers and black jacket got out , then helped a woman with magnificent grey hair to alight . |
| 16 | They were both silent , busy with their own thoughts , apart from her directions , until he drew up in front of the divided house that contained her tiny flat . |
| 17 | ‘ You bitch ! ’ he whispered as the car drew up in front of the country house hotel that her father had decided was good enough for the reception to celebrate the wedding of his only daughter to the reigning world champion . |
| 18 | They drew up in front of a pair of steel gates topped with spikes . |
| 19 | Morse made no reply , and two minutes later Lewis drew up in front of The Randolph . |
| 20 | But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of . |
| 21 | He turned into a dusty side-street and drew up in front of a five-storey block of flats . |
| 22 | An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him . |
| 23 | These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck . |
| 24 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |
| 25 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 26 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 27 | Her head jerked up with pride . |
| 28 | Constance jerked up in bed clutching her throat in terror . |
| 29 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 30 | His attention was jerked back to the issue at hand as the tennis ball bounced up in front of him , hitting him in the face . |