Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 2 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 3 | There was a guitar on the table , and a frilled black silk shirt hanging up behind the door . |
| 4 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 5 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 6 | He was close , his powerful , bare chest pressing up against the towelling of her robe ; she could almost feel the anger pumping around his body . |
| 7 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 8 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 9 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 10 | Although Wilson 's point is a good one , there is a considerable momentum building up within the digital multimedia industry and even if reluctance to reinvest in new kit slows the pace of change , it is unlikely to deflect the overwhelming trend . |
| 11 | He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside . |
| 12 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 13 | As he reached for Steen 's hand , he heard a car drawing up outside the gates . |
| 14 | It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house . |
| 15 | This is entirely due to excessive muscular tension building up over the years and pulling the bones of the spine closer together , by as much as two or even three inches . |
| 16 | There were also some strange red rods sticking up in the air from a holder . |
| 17 | Depending on the evolution of management during the early 1990s , the confusions building up in the Training Authority 's role may need to be unravelled : either it is strengthened as an effective arm of central policy , or it is abolished so that the market — created by itself — can have freer play . |
| 18 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 19 | While a gravel tidy with too fine a mesh will soon block , one with too large a mesh can see the fry ending up in the gravel bed below and the parents trying to get at them . |
| 20 | And they indicate there that there are excellent opportunities opening up in the United Kingdom bottled water market across the full range of available products commonly consumed and specifically identified friendly product ranges . |
| 21 | Looking past Adam , she saw Fand had stopped by another set of steps winding up into the rock . |
| 22 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 23 | And the mile-high fuel club topping up over the North Sea . |
| 24 | I remember the white snow splashing up like a wave . ’ |
| 25 | and there 's no facilities for kids , you know young kids ranging up to the age of er about sixteen seventeen . |
| 26 | In the absence of the injured Matt Gallagher , Brian Murray switches to full back with Anthony Molloy and Barry Cunningham teaming up in the middle of the field . |
| 27 | She pulled off her clothes and left them in a heap , then lay on top of the covers looking up at the ceiling . |
| 28 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 29 | Peter Suvarov smiled , his eyes crinkling up at the corners and his bitter mouth relaxing , and handed her a handkerchief . |
| 30 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |