Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 2 | Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude . |
| 3 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 4 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
| 5 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 6 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 7 | I could tell you that the eyes were so beautiful they could actually make you feel giddy when he suddenly looked up from the floor and straight at you . |
| 8 | The sour smell from the communal rubbish bins in the alley below drifted up through a broken window and Carrie grimaced as she knocked on the door . |
| 9 | Only spoke up for the girl . ’ |
| 10 | The weight of Garvey on his narrow , bony shoulders , combined with the close fit of the donkey-head , seemed to cause him some distress , because he suddenly reeled up against a wall and snatched off the head . |
| 11 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 12 | Instead of promoting a situation in which everyone is itching to do something positive for the good of the Tour , we merely ended up with a handful of players who did nothing but complain . ’ |
| 13 | Erm I thought you had a good structured call , you were focused on business , you obviously picked up on the buying side . |
| 14 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 15 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 16 | But then , with Matilda concentrating fiercely , one end of it slowly lifted up about an inch off the table-top . |
| 17 | They brought tears to her eyes , but tears of pain soon welled up from an overwhelming sense of despair . |
| 18 | When I finally got up onto the wing it was dark . |
| 19 | I mean if anybody else just got up on the stage like he does and kicks his leg , kick like their leg like er like that they 'd boo him off ! |
| 20 | Her eyes were almost closing when she finally drew up outside the villa . |
| 21 | Mr. F.J. Norris , the Head of Modern Languages , had first come to the School , on teaching practice , in 1933 , and returned in January 1934 as Form Master of Junior A. He soon moved up into the Senior School . |
| 22 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
| 23 | After riding for some time in the dark , they finally caught up with the cart at a toll-gate . |
| 24 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 25 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 26 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 27 | Since they had started paying ‘ interest ’ , they no longer woke up in the middle of the night squealing with fright from nightmares . |
| 28 | When the cold engine that was the city had coughed and kicked and finally started up for the day , then she 'd set out about her business . |
| 29 | She said oh no I just rang up for a chat . |
| 30 | The arrow formation soon broke up into a ragged line , with Premiere on the outside , pampering on the inner and Upper Gumtree still just in front . |