Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair .
2 Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west .
3 France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity .
4 B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time .
5 The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk .
6 He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building .
7 The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description .
8 BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey .
9 It was like waking up after a long , long nightmare , but it was not safe at all to be awake .
10 She remembered waking up in a long room filled with covered beds ; knocking a uniformed man to the ground ; taking his gun and running .
11 I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice .
12 Then he was hauling back on the control column and edging in on Woolley as the flight hurtled up in a long recovery from its dive .
13 He clambered up behind the long bonnet , onto the padded bucket seat .
14 Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her .
15 Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago .
16 As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to .
17 Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’
18 Rather like the systems employed by general practitioners , there are advantages and disadvantages to both methods , with patients perhaps preferring the former system and being prepared to put up with a long delay once in the clinic to a worried wait of two or three days .
19 You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it .
20 ‘ That 's why we did not get tied up to a long deal before .
21 He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass .
22 You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance .
23 It was all she could do to scramble behind trying to keep up with the long , impatient strides .
24 I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’
25 Tonight , wherever she looked she saw herself reflected and transformed , her face shining as though she had quite suddenly woken up after a long sleep , filled with lovely dreams .
26 If you 're not doing it like that and you 're in a conversation or atmosphere in the room , when I find it , this little gadget is wonderful , this will pick up for a long way , this will pick up the dogs next door , if there was no other noise in this room .
27 The magnificent engine was strong and skilful still , but the suppleness and the sap were drying up in the long sinews , the head was already a death's-head .
28 The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ .
29 Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved .
30 ‘ If I 'm dreaming I hope I do n't wake up for a long time , ’ he says .
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