Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firemen took to boats to reach those trapped in their homes as water rose up to door-top level . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We lined up behind old ‘ Beachie ’ as he was known and off we went around the City streets . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Here the dirt of the steamer , and the filth of the station , caught up with poor Mig who went down with dysentery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill informed about polls before the campaign but caught up with highbrow readers later . |
| 12 | my mate lived down that area then he , he moved up to far end Keighley end |
| 13 | cloacal curl coiled up in bloodied alabaster , |
| 14 | The computer can fight on the behalf of both boxers and the outcome is based upon the fighters statistics that they built up during numerous bouts . |
| 15 | During this period the spit suffered erosion on its south-west facing portion , the shingle being transported round the Ness itself and built up into new ridges on the east-facing side , where the dominant waves come from an east or north-east direction . |
| 16 | The wipers began to wheeze as the snowflakes built up into hard wedges of ice , and some of the men in the back were stamping feet on the floor of the van trying to improve their circulation . |
| 17 | Even their footsteps were silent on the thick carpet of pine needles built up over countless years . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ The two systems , an Alpha Drum Monitor and a Neutron Coincidence Counter , are results of development and design expertise from both Risley and Sellafield built up over recent years . |
| 19 | As I have indicated , the requirements for competition are slightly different , but we can use the fitness built up through normal training to provide a platform upon which to establish more specialised requirements . |
| 20 | Reading involves the recognition of printed or written symbols which serve as stimuli for recall of meanings built up through past experience , and the construction of new meanings through manipulation of concepts already possessed by the reader . |
| 21 | One point at issue for Yugoslav leaders was the extent to which current developments were damaging the relationship built up at federal level with the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 22 | JOHN Armstrong 's paintings , ‘ built up of remembered things which in my case have been miscalled surrealist ’ , have a poetic appeal which often beats Dali , Magritte et al at their own game . |
| 23 | There would be opportunities here for a cross-European sharing of expertise built up around bilingual skills . |
| 24 | The controversy built up around particular decisions to turn down planning applications , with angry scenes in the planning office , complaints to councillors , the involvement of community councils , letters to the local newspaper and the circulation of comment and condemnation by disappointed would-be house-builders . |
| 25 | Any goodwill built up by careful diplomacy and treaties was swept away by Scapula 's savage reprisals , and any shreds left with the Trinovantes by the brutal contempt displayed by the veterans at Camulodunon . |
| 26 | These often show a winter profile combed down into a series of bars and troughs caused by the destructive waves of winter storms and a steeper summer profile with a large inshore berm built up by swell waves of constructive type . |
| 27 | Figure 10 Crystal forms built up from spheroidal atoms from A. Ure , Dictionary of Chemistry , third edition , London , 1828 , after W. H. Wollaston whose models are in the Science Museum , London . |
| 28 | The court will have regard to the general mercantile structure within which a relationship arises , a structure of relationship and expectation built up from accepted custom and methods of dealing . |
| 29 | The outline of your notes should be based on the syllabus or programme of the subjects and built up from key words abstracted from textbooks and other writings on the topics concerned . |
| 30 | The enormous edifice of presumed relationships built up from careful study of homologous structures , ( the supreme example is the study of bones in the skulls of reptiles ) may have to be re-examined , and if necessary dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up . |