Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the ray rose up like a revenant |
| 2 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 3 | There was something in the speed , as they rounded corners on two wheels , that shook her out of her bad mood , and when they drew up with a squeal of brakes in the narrow road just by Pepe 's Bar , she was laughing at Miguel 's uncharacteristic recklessness . |
| 4 | Across the road a bus drew up at a stop . |
| 5 | Outside its gate a battered estate-car was parked ; Maud drew up at a distance , and together they walked in . |
| 6 | We drew up outside a building which was surrounded by a walled courtyard . |
| 7 | The car drew up outside a pair of high white gates . |
| 8 | We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines . |
| 9 | Tolby drew up outside a newsagent 's . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's two years since I last lined up on a grid , ’ Vitor said , ‘ and since then I 've refused to give interviews and avoided all contact with the media . |
| 11 | The whole house smelled of it , of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust . |
| 12 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 13 | My eye swelled up in a matter of minutes , and I was unable to hear anything . |
| 14 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 15 | There were several injuries and all healed up after a while . |
| 16 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 17 | Simon 's daughter , Pippa , a beauty of six who had one blue and one green eye , swarmed watchfully into the room on her stomach with Thomas 's encouragement and bounced up with a war whoop behind the chairs of two sleeping visitors . |
| 18 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 19 | then they moved down to the house opposite the green in front of the church which I think the now live in next to the , Janet and Peter , that house and then they moved up to a bungalow . |
| 20 | He moved up to a slave . |
| 21 | The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come . |
| 22 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 23 | To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime . |
| 24 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 25 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 26 | The pressure built up in a system as a result of the intake of water by osmosis . |
| 27 | Int he trained up as a welder now ? |
| 28 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 29 | Finally , when the stream dried up to a dribble , she popped the man 's wet dick in her mouth to savour the last few drops . |
| 30 | Parts of its head wrinkled up into a half frown . |