Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 2 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 3 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 4 | With everyone that counts stacking up on the same side , only an optimist would fight for honesty . |
| 5 | The name of the game , ‘ Grandmother 's Footsteps ’ is already a hint : the young and fit creeping up on the old , the halt and the lame . |
| 6 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 7 | Mr Tate said although they felt quite safe on the eighth floor it was disconcerting to see armed security guards and smoke bellowing up through the skyscrapers . |
| 8 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 9 | He describes growing up in the village of the Kxinawa Indians by the Parauaca River , listening to tales of the massacres which marked the occupation of Acre a century ago at the height of the rubber boom . |
| 10 | Parties then with noise , just imagine going up to the door where there are fifty or sixty seething people in there . |
| 11 | And Mrs Fawcett came rushing up to the hospital with the perfect solution : she lent me a battery-operated portable radio . |
| 12 | I thought she was talking about you , I mean she never mentioned no names when she came rushing up to the top just the same , do n't know what 's the matter with Wynne today , the edge there Lynda . |
| 13 | The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door . |
| 14 | That fish came zooming up to the top then , to see what you were doing . |
| 15 | I have to use sleeping tablets to help me sleep at night because I 'm dreading getting up in the morning in case anything 's happened further . |
| 16 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 17 | The sound of singing came drifting up from the quays below . |
| 18 | Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane . |
| 19 | Mrs Joyce , the cook , came panting up from the kitchen with the two maid-servants behind her , her hands and wrists covered in flour , while Uncle Walter and his sister peeped wide-eyed from behind the curtains . |
| 20 | She came running up to the van and climbed in beside him . |
| 21 | The man was n't watching the light room he saw smoke coming up under the so he went away down and there was a fire in a in the er in the library . |
| 22 | But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing . |
| 23 | The organ could not approach this strangled cry that came welling up from the bowels , from the primitive consciousness of life , of pain , of joy ; the long , tortured note that slowly unwound your intestines to be twanged by the electric guitarist . |
| 24 | The heavy sound of the door-knocker came beating up from the bottom of the house . |
| 25 | She does n't fancy turning up to the supermarket in it ! |
| 26 | Then a car was heard pulling up at the gate ; either the bridal car or their uncle had come . |
| 27 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 28 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 29 | Over the summer , word of mouth made Quadrant Park one of the most queued-for nights in the north ; now coachloads from Glasgow , Newcastle and even Manchester begin lining up amid the warehouses and oil tanks at 8pm . |
| 30 | I do n't remember waking up with the blinding realization that it was time to go : it was more like a very gradual awareness that there simply was n't an alternative . |