Example sentences of "[verb] up beside [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tanks and troops were still crossing the river as the Officer I had accompanied drew up beside me with the jeep . |
| 2 | Our main memory is of trying to keep the inside of the windscreen free of ice ( no heater ) while queues of traffic built up beside us on the long haul up Shap Fell . |
| 3 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 4 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 5 | She climbed up beside him on the ridge of rock . |
| 6 | Stepson , a short-haired cat of some unaccountable breed , jumps up beside me on the seat . |
| 7 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 8 | I thought you might panic if I suddenly loomed up beside you in the darkness . ’ |