Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the side " in BNC.

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1 In silence we worked , completely indifferent to the freezing cold , as the pile built up at the side of the house .
2 Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out .
3 Then once this morning Fred 's bum was on his blanket and Windy curled up by the side of him .
4 In the meantime , the hole in the road is reopened , and at 6pm the men line up by the side of the maypole , the band starts to play and the command to hoist it on to shoulders is given .
5 Its mile-long street , continuously built up along the side facing the loch from which it gets its name , has many shops , banks , garages , hotels and guest houses , patronised by customers from a wide area and by the touring motorists who pass through and invariably halt .
6 Yes , c or another sign that they put up by the side of the road is was you passing this spot this time last week did you see anything .
7 And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side .
8 But it does seem that he had some hint of the future : not only does his idea of the arena in which Pandemonium ( 1831 ) took place look like Wembley Stadium but his high-rise Tower of Babel in Belshazzar 's Feast might almost have been modelled on the General Accident Life building now going up at the side of Lendal Bridge on the way to York 's Railway Station .
9 Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes .
10 They had left the path and turned up by the side of the long Nissen hut when Len paused and , half turning to Joe , he said , ‘ You know , you still did n't answer my question earlier on information concerning one Joseph Jebeau .
11 He was a Protestant mercenary from Moravia who foresaw Habsburg victory and joined up on the side of the emperor .
12 A curving drive amongst trees leads up to the side of the lake and continues thence along the edge of the water in beautiful surroundings richly endowed with lovely trees planted by the Farrers in the days long ago when woodlands were intended for ornamental display and were allowed to develop to full maturity with no thought of slaughtering them for profit .
13 You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time .
14 He was sitting propped up against the side of the snack kiosk , head on his chest , eye shut .
15 It was a sign of his distress that he did n't care what it cost , had n't even looked to see the list of seat prices posted up by the side of the window .
16 She takes an exit at random and pulls up at the side of the road to consult her A to Z , but there are no street names visible which would enable her to orient herself .
17 They overtook him when he was n't expecting it ; they pulled up at the side of the road and trapped him behind them ; they got in front of him at traffic-lights and then decided to turn right .
18 On the way back he pulled up on the side of the road and just said mum and him could n't live together any more . ’
19 You ca n't stand up near the side .
20 well they go up at the side of it and down behind it
21 Joe had climbed up over the side of the nearest and lowered himself in , rubbish sliding unsteadily beneath him , and then he 'd found his balance and hunkered down and started to sift .
22 Victorine and Rose had gone , leaving tottering piles of dirty plates , cutlery soaking in jugs , saucepans and pots lined up at the side of the sink .
23 Joy said that this really was n't on and that they must pull up at the side of the road and try to find some stones or something with which to wedge the coffin .
24 ( 1 ) It is a well-known custom that as soon as the siren of a fire-engine is heard , other vehicles should pull up at the side of the road , in order to afford free passage .
25 She moved along the counter to where , beneath it , on a narrow table , there stood a number of trays and , taking up the brass hammer , she broke the edge of the toffee and put four pieces into a newspaper cone that she had taken from a number stacked up by the side of the tray .
26 So why does it all bulge up on the side
27 Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out .
28 do you know when the come up on the side , that from .
29 It 's the fourth year running that the Tudor Manor is playing host to a mini opera season in the three hundred seater auditorium set up at the side of the house .
30 After a while , wishing to support the undertaking , Finch sat up on the side of his bed and played something buoyant on his cello .
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