Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 2 | Dan got up from the breakfast bar . |
| 3 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 4 | Each of these in turn subdivided into separate , smaller fibrils which are themselves composed of a highly organized array of myofilaments made up of the proteins actin and myosin ( Fig. 53 ) . |
| 5 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 6 | Philippa got up from the chair she had brought into the kitchen , went to take the cloth from Lee 's lap , decided against it , and started to wipe up the insidious liquid with tissues . |
| 7 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 8 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 9 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 10 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 11 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 12 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 13 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 14 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 15 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 16 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 17 | He scanned her tense expression , his eyes crinkled up against the sun . |
| 18 | Aldhelm got up from the turf on which a new and unsteady lamb was also trying to get to its feet , nuzzled by the quivering ewe . |
| 19 | A dim lamp swung over the entrance where three steps led up into the foyer . |
| 20 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 21 | Steps led up from the stone paving to a wide veranda , which was adorned with hanging plants and tubs full of flowers . |
| 22 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 23 | Carlie got up from the footstool . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never eaten them , ’ Richard gazed up at the man , his clear chestnut eyes , starry with their thick lashes , open wide as he judged the amount of pathos necessary to achieve his aim . |
| 25 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 26 | Hatch straightened up from the plant box , and surveyed his handiwork for a second before looking at Cowley and saying , ‘ Maiden Lane or Memory Lane ? |
| 27 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 28 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 29 | The president got up from the chair and came round the table , his hand outstretched in the Western style . |
| 30 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |