Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | STAFF AT Lincoln turbine Service Limited turned up at the Moat House Hotel , Aberdeen on 5 December for their five-course Christmas Dinner [ well , who would n't ] . |
| 2 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |
| 3 | Sabine stared up at the lettering cut into the ancient stonework . |
| 4 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 5 | A faint glistening showed up on the surface of the carvings . |
| 6 | She looks pretty shook up from the letter . |
| 7 | A tiny tinkling started up in the heart of the rose . |
| 8 | But he was sufficiently master of himself to resist , and pulled out of her , his heart thumping like some crazy locked up in the cell of his chest . |
| 9 | But by the time strands of sounds of the fair floated up from the park , people were beginning to get home , wash , relax and pick up again . |
| 10 | Even more important , perhaps , were the discussions about the notion of a women 's aesthetic : again and again , the attempt to articulate the new and unspoken came up against the absence of an appropriate language . |