Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her .
2 I just , Birmingham Region , I think the delegate who came up second about long service ambulance staff and the going down .
3 Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati .
4 Only she looked up first into his eyes , and again saw that his eyes were gentle .
5 We managed to persuade them to come and sit with us and she ended up next to me .
6 He lined up first in the 100 metres .
7 He drew up next to it by a red traffic light .
8 and he pulled up next to me and he said wound his window down he said ah chicken !
9 One man was so overcome by the gig he jumped up next to the band and harassed the crowd into giving them a standing ovation .
10 He ended up eighth on the grid and said : ‘ The car feels much better here than it did in South Africa .
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