Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heat from the front room rose up through the floorboards so that the room , although bare , was warm . |
| 2 | There was a wide space beside the staircase , the stairs rose up to the boys ' bedroom wall , then turned left to join the landing . |
| 3 | A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about . |
| 4 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 5 | A test was arranged involving a detachment of Guards who lined up along the WCs and flushed in unison . |
| 6 | Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street . |
| 7 | At Cajabamba we joined a slightly better road , and soon afterwards we turned west and headed up into the mountains through Huamachuco , climbing all the way . |
| 8 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |
| 9 | A lot of activity on the ceiling , too … as Ninereeds hovered , thumping the air with his wings , Twoflower peered up at the shapes of roosting beasts and tiny men-shaped dots that were somehow walking upside down . |
| 10 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
| 11 | I caught up with the others as they were entering the front door of the house . |
| 12 | Carrying a cross brought back from Jerusalem before them , the " army of peace " caught up with the Brabançons at Malemort , near Brive , and relieved their outraged feelings in an orgy of slaughter . |
| 13 | Over the moor they went until , at last , they caught up with the hounds . |
| 14 | The Scots caught up with the Britons on land that is now part of Coilsfield Mains farm . |
| 15 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 16 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 17 | She stole a look at him ; he was looking grimmer by the minute — he would n't show any mercy once he caught up with the culprits . |
| 18 | After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile . |
| 19 | A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants . |
| 20 | Admitted to the livery in 1822 , he moved up through the ranks to become master in 1828–30 , thereafter sitting in the court of assistants . |
| 21 | Father Paddy moved up from the altar-steps to kiss the altar-stone , then turned to the congregation . |
| 22 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 23 | Chain ownership , built up between the wars by the manoeuvres of the press barons ( mainly seeking economies of scale ) , remained a crucial factor . |
| 24 | Do schools take their small-scale budgetary approaches , built up over the years by dealing with capitation , or do they reappraise their resource management approach ? |
| 25 | But the lesson of the Kennedy case is that if you have the chance to take another job before your redundancy has been confirmed , you may have to choose between safeguarding your future and cashing in on the job rights built up over the years in your present employment . |
| 26 | The strength of the economy has been founded on small family businesses and farms built up over the years by hard work and self-denial . |
| 27 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 28 | Then , as we built up through the storeys we were checking continually by plumbing and levelling the brickwork at regular intervals to keep the curvature constant . ’ |
| 29 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 30 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |