Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
| 2 | Tim Kaihatsu wrote quite a lot — in fact , he was the one who came up with the most material . |
| 3 | Homeless people came up with the most poignant things , probably because they 're used to communicating this way . ’ |
| 4 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 5 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 6 | She came up with the wonderfully whacky idea of the Cabinet all being drug smugglers . ’ |
| 7 | Later , as a result of other movements in the rocks , fissures opened up in the slowly solidifying granite . |
| 8 | Using a special pedal-extension device , he faced up to the suddenly enormous-looking Steinway in something of a David and Goliath meeting , and triumphed . |
| 9 | In 1965 the young Cooder teamed up with the equally young Taj Mahal in a band called The Rising Sons . |
| 10 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 11 | A team of four assassins , made up from the now disbanded Security Police , have vowed to kill Mobuto while he 's here in America . |
| 12 | Before he stepped up for the most nerve-shattering moment of his career Guennady Grishin had kept his nerve to fire the Russians into a 4-3 advantage . |
| 13 | By the time the taxi driver pulled up outside the very normal house in the very normal street in one of the suburbs of Nice she had pretty much convinced herself that she was slowly going insane . |
| 14 | I went across the course to the stands side to see the horses in the paddock , and then I went up to the very comfy Tribune des Dames , for which the French Racing Authorities so generously send me a badge each year . |
| 15 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 16 | But a dispute grew up in the always cost-conscious companies between those who wanted to beautify the trackside to delight the approaching train travellers and those who wanted more spacious station gardens as an urban amenity . |
| 17 | Thus they were , in majority , from professional and administrative families , and grew up within the newly regularized ( reformed ) educational system of ‘ public ’ school and university . |
| 18 | Then he looked up towards the softly defined slopes , high above the village . |
| 19 | As he did so , a black gloved hand shot up through the suddenly exposed gap and rammed a razor sharp six-inch blade hilt-deep under his ribcage . |
| 20 | Most of the Healthcare group asked if they could attend , and as Brenda says ‘ We ended up with the most romantic wedding you could wish for . |
| 21 | But Belinda says they ended up in the far from deserted capital of Rarotonga . |
| 22 | He derides particularly the Dedlock family portraits : ‘ The whole race he represented as having evidently been , in life , what he called ‘ stuffed people ’ , — a large collection , glassy eyed , set up in the most approved manner on their various twigs and perches , very correct , perfectly free from animation , and always in glass cases . ’ |
| 23 | Gannon was an odd choice although few people picked up on the seemingly obvious fact that he was a rhythm guitarist and not a bass player . |
| 24 | KEROSENE , fierce guitar quintet recently snapped up by the Dead Dead Good label , take time out from recording their debut EP with Neds/MC4 producer Jessica Corcoran to play Colchester Hippodrome on September 14 . |
| 25 | KEROSENE , West Didsbury outfit recently snapped up by the Dead Dead Good label , play |