Example sentences of "[vb past] up [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shower cubicle was in a tiny room with a basin and toilet off the bedroom , and a luxurious steam built up quickly in spite of the efforts of the extractor fan to draw it away . |
| 2 | BUT when the system loosened up slightly under pressure from Gorbachev 's reforms , some groups started to return to the cafes . |
| 3 | A Metropolitan train roared up non-stop to Wembley Park and a slower Jubilee passed it , stopping at the platform below . |
| 4 | Britain woke up just in time . |
| 5 | Her granddaddy came up here to farm in 1891 , but her husband 's family has been here longer . |
| 6 | Anti-aircraft guns opened up hopelessly off target , nervous of hitting their own planes . |
| 7 | When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday . |
| 8 | Three o'clock , you say , Lewis , when Kemp turned up again in Oxford ? ’ |
| 9 | Other water-loving species turned up here from time to time also — Mimulus and forget-me-not and Water Speedwell . |
| 10 | This impression was confirmed by a reporter from the New Yorker , one of the many journalists who turned up regularly at Liverpool Street in search of a heart-warming story . |
| 11 | Meanwhile he turned up daily at Chelsea , sitting with Jack in the studio or Franca in the kitchen . |
| 12 | In the West Indies the incident of wanting to go to the airport , and the fact that he turned up late for matches a number of times , had gained him a reputation for lack of discipline . |
| 13 | I turned up there in jeans and a jumper , but with a new pair of spikes . |
| 14 | Any hope I might have entertained that Lewis and Verity 's little Hogmanay hug had been an aberration , something they would fail to follow through , or feel for some reason embarrassed about , was comprehensively quashed the next evening when they turned up together at Uncle Hamish and Aunt Tone 's , bearing all the signs of new lovers ( literally so in the case of Lewis 's neck , which displayed a line of passion purpurae worthy of an industrial vacuum cleaner , and which were ill-concealed by Lewis 's longish dark curls and a white shirt fastened with a bootlace tie ) . |
| 15 | Fangio and Moss teamed up again at Maserati in 1957 , but their renewed partnership was only brief as Moss soon moved to Vanwall. the pair of them , however , dominated the championship once more but the final championship read : 1st Fangio , 2nd Moss , for a third successive year . |
| 16 | Our lack of experienced help showed up again on Sunday afternoon when we lost track of results for a while . |
| 17 | He also thought sweeper Noel Bailie showed up well under pressure . |
| 18 | Ulster bowlers showed up well with Willie Loughrey from Portrush , a senior inter-association bowler 11 win over Phillip Darcy in the first round and then beat Paul Doyle 21–15 in the second round . |
| 19 | The French Renaissance motifs were competently handled and showed up well against Coe 's less able attempt . |
| 20 | The following morning six of the travelling journalists showed up innocently for breakfast in Chicago wanting to know where everyone had gone . |
| 21 | He paid up just in time . |
| 22 | But the battle to preserve beloved solitudes flared up repeatedly in patches all over the country , precisely as it does today with the threat of new airfields and military training areas . |
| 23 | ‘ He linked up well with Stuart Pearce and Nigel Clough , and we had a good run of success . |
| 24 | He threw up all over Miss Fazackerly 's skirt . |
| 25 | Oh yah , d' you r'member the time on the Fourth o' June we broke into Tairp and airt all the long eggs and threw up all over pop room and ha ha ha ha ! |
| 26 | But after that he met up again with Olwen , a childhood friend . |
| 27 | He met up again with Shankar , who was then a visiting professor at the City College in New York , and studied for a while with Alla Rakha . |
| 28 | Here we met up again with Ned , and stayed with Deryn Williams who is a niece of Anne 's and teaches at the local High School — we camped in her garden . |
| 29 | Therefore , what the widow receives annually — £3,750 in this case — is made up partly of income and partly of capital . |
| 30 | The majority , made up predominantly of Bolsheviks with a substantial bloc of radical SRs , approved the formation of a Bolshevik government , the Council of People 's Commissars . |