Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 2 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 3 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 4 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 5 | He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone . |
| 6 | He left the Operations Room and was running up the Pit transport belt when Cheryl Russell swung in from a side corridor and very nearly cannoned into him . |
| 7 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 8 | Jim had left , moved on to London and was heading up a new Rapid Response Unit there in connection with HEMS , the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service . |
| 9 | ‘ The priest was so preoccupied he did n't see the van and was heading up the ramp when I stopped him . ’ |