Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a guitar on the table , and a frilled black silk shirt hanging up behind the door . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 5 | She was looking particularly uncompromising today , tired and pale , her dark , short hair spiking up at the back . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As he reached for Steen 's hand , he heard a car drawing up outside the gates . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mrs Hollidaye 's dogs were left inside the car bobbing up at the rear window . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And the mile-high fuel club topping up over the North Sea . |
| 15 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 16 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 17 | In the case of the UK 's crossroads , for example , that approach pays scant attention to the break-up of the UK 's position at the centre of the Sterling Area and Commonwealth trade in the 1970s , or to the responsibility of unions , management , the financial system and the state for manufacturing industry 's poor productivity growth and hence declining international competitiveness during the long boom leading up to the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s period . |
| 18 | Have , in contrast , eliminates any reference to a tension leading up to the realization of the infinitive and represents the latter as being " already in the bag " . |
| 19 | Perhaps yeah I think you must have been airborne at that stage to be er , had such a enormous flame going up into the balloon . |
| 20 | THE England ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand could prove to be a mixed blessing thanks to an insufficiently competitive provincial itinerary leading up to the two ‘ tests ’ against a New Zealand XV at the end of the tour . |
| 21 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 22 | The plates are not permanent : they are constantly being replenished by liquid rock gushing up from the Earth 's mantle ( the subsurface layer ) at the long submarine mountain ranges known as the mid-ocean ridges . |
| 23 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 24 | I went in and there 's Heidi oh well I 've just got all the script coming up on the screen and I 've just got so and so for you and I |
| 25 | He was about to swivel round into the hall when he heard the sound of a car starting up outside the house . |
| 26 | Indeed , if you are lucky , on a clear day you might just be able to see the spring bubbling up at the bottom of the pond . |
| 27 | His eyes , now that she could see them clearly , abraded her flesh with a cold more searing than the icy wind blowing up from the valley this morning . |
| 28 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 29 | The curvature of space-time caused by the matter in the universe can then lead to the three space directions and the imaginary time direction meeting up around the back . |
| 30 | He cut power , toe snapping up through the gears . |