Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel . |
2 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
3 | A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us . |
4 | In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime . |
5 | There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied . |
6 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
7 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
8 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
9 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
10 | Railways van drew up outside the big house . |
11 | Not wishing to antagonize Harry , when finally they drew up outside the little cottage in Melton Mowbray to which Mrs Appleby had now retired , Madeleine allowed herself to be persuaded inside . |
12 | They drew up beside the stone-pillared farm gate which Lesley-Jane had described . |
13 | When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke . |
14 | We drew up by the main entrance and Tony and I went through the swing doors at speed and headed for the secretary 's office . |
15 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
16 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
17 | We lined up across the broad esplanade between the Prime Minister 's Office and the clear Caribbean Sea . |
18 | In November 1990 , they lined up inside the front door to shake the Majors by the hand ; following an election victory , protocol decrees that Turnbull should lead his colleagues in applause . |
19 | Setting off from Rosedale village centre ( the bakery there does a rather stunning line in apricot and mincemeat slices ) , we headed up towards the infamous Chimney Bank ( a one in three climb , used for the British National Hillclimb Championships ) . |
20 | Caro peered up to the black sky . |
21 | The cop peered up at the towering fire escape for several seconds , then , satisfied it was deserted , he walked across the alley to the opposite wall . |
22 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
23 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
24 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
25 | As we can see , though , new concerns with how writing interacts with history are causing us to abandon the idea of literary study as something caught up with the transcendental . |
26 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
27 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
28 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
29 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
30 | 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 . |