Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blue shape that swam up in the doorway . |
| 2 | An odour of dank river air swam up from the river . |
| 3 | An explosion of methane gas which seeped up from the ground in Derbyshire 5 years ago demolished a pensioner 's house . |
| 4 | Darkness seeped up from the earth . |
| 5 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 6 | ‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there . |
| 7 | And , them will survive there , but during er the Winter , starting October , you could see the face of the plantation of that was facing the sea , it all scorched up towards the end of O of er December . |
| 8 | ‘ A vast pillar of fire rose up through the floor and decimated the display of the Nugahiro Corporation 's new range of lap-top computers ! ’ |
| 9 | Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky . |
| 10 | The bullet punched through armour plate , the tank exploded , and the arvee rose up into the air in a whirl of flame . |
| 11 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 12 | Nothing was left but a clearing in the forest and a flock of doves who rose up into the air , wheeled round , and flew off . |
| 13 | The glider rose up into the atmosphere . |
| 14 | The wheel gathered momentum as they rose up to the top : balanced , it seemed , on nothingness for a precarious second , then plunged , in a stomach-churning dive , back to earth again . |
| 15 | They stood together on the hillside that rose up behind the Castle . |
| 16 | On my right , across the river , steep forested banks rose up from the water . |
| 17 | Another time , a photographer had ventured onto the reef that rose up from the sea at the far corner . |
| 18 | His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave . |
| 19 | As the very last mouthful disappeared , a tremendous cheer rose up from the audience and children were leaping on to their chairs and yelling and clapping and shouting , ‘ Well done , Brucie ! |
| 20 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 21 | That is why the people of Scotland rose up against the rating system . |
| 22 | The great beeches towered up towards the sky , their grey smooth trunks like the columns of an abbey church , and about their roots short grasses grew , gay with harebells and scentless violets among which indolently flitted small butterflies more blue than the flowers . |
| 23 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A few moments later , however , a taxi drew up to the kerb and he thrust his golden head out of the window . |
| 26 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 27 | A light van drew up on the wharf , and a man got out and dropped a large quantity of cardboard boxes over the side of the wharf onto the deck . |
| 28 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 29 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 30 | Mrs Stych drew up at the kerb in her new European car , bought , needless to say , from Maxie 's arch-rival down in Edmonton . |