Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bitter laugh rose up like bile in her throat . |
| 2 | ‘ For all at once there was a rumble and a roaring along the road in the mist , and the hooded crows rose up in alarm at the sound of it . |
| 3 | Unwilling to allow legal reforms like the Catholic Relief Act 1793 ( which repealed some aspects of the Penal Laws ) to appease them , the movement rose up in rebellion in 1798 . |
| 4 | A huge curtain of grey cliff rose up in front of him , the lie of the ground making its appearance seem instant and magical , like scenery in a theatre . |
| 5 | The clouds rose up in front of God 's throne . |
| 6 | ‘ Peggy ’ James , the proprietor , a heavily built man and had a wooden leg — hence his nickname — but he was remarkably speedy to provide quick service when cars drew up for petrol from his one , hand-operated pump . |
| 7 | As the car drew up in front of the Lodge with a crunch of gravel , Detective Sergeant Allen strode out to meet them . |
| 8 | The huge wooden gates were opened by a legionnaire in combat kit with a FA-MAS assault rifle slung across his chest , and his beret tilted over his right eye ; we drew up in front of a five-storey building and got out . |
| 9 | It was raining as we drew up in front of the building and started unpacking our kit . |
| 10 | He drew up in front of a pair of wrought-iron gates where he was immediately challenged by a bearded man wearing jeans and a faded black T-shirt . |
| 11 | When he brought her back he just drew up in front of the villa , jumped out , opened door , kissed hand , ‘ Bon soir , Madame , ’ and he was off . |
| 12 | Across the road , a taxi drew up in front of the august jewellers and a man in pinstripe trousers and black jacket got out , then helped a woman with magnificent grey hair to alight . |
| 13 | They were both silent , busy with their own thoughts , apart from her directions , until he drew up in front of the divided house that contained her tiny flat . |
| 14 | ‘ You bitch ! ’ he whispered as the car drew up in front of the country house hotel that her father had decided was good enough for the reception to celebrate the wedding of his only daughter to the reigning world champion . |
| 15 | They drew up in front of a pair of steel gates topped with spikes . |
| 16 | Morse made no reply , and two minutes later Lewis drew up in front of The Randolph . |
| 17 | But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of . |
| 18 | He turned into a dusty side-street and drew up in front of a five-storey block of flats . |
| 19 | An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him . |
| 20 | These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck . |
| 21 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |
| 22 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 23 | His attention was jerked back to the issue at hand as the tennis ball bounced up in front of him , hitting him in the face . |
| 24 | In one movement Rincewind unrolled and bounced up in front of the little man , his hands gripping his shoulders desperately . |
| 25 | He knelt up in front of me , our bodies touching from shoulder to knee , his hands in my hair , his mouth at the side of mine . |
| 26 | ‘ A ’ moved up to second in division one after beating bottom team Farnborough Tech ‘ C ’ . |
| 27 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 28 | The personality , something built up by interaction in the world , may become rigid and show signs of extreme wear — it is like a mask which is becoming stiff and cumbersome — but the spirit is becoming freer , disengaging from the normal functions of everyday life . |
| 29 | That 's the team of management that I , together with one or two others , built up from scratch at the beginning of the Liberal Democrats , and we now in Stockport have a highly successful erm m As I say , tier of management for training , for campaigning , for policy development in Stockport , and as you probably know we do have a good record of winning local council seats . |
| 30 | Throughout the 1960s , as technology , especially computer technology , developed , pressure built up in Parliament for legislative controls . |