Example sentences of "and [vb past] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water is the deepest hue of aquamarine and whipped up into meringue peaks . |
| 2 | He just sat in his chair and gazed up at Granny 's picture in its faded gilt frame . |
| 3 | He turned to the altar again and gazed up at Paddy 's back and tried to concentrate . |
| 4 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 5 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 6 | I flew to Gibraltar on 19 December 1974 , and met up with Mick and Paddy , who had taken the Land Rover , wheelbarrow and kit there on a munitions ship . |
| 7 | Still clutching this souvenir , he and his group made their rendezvous and met up with Stirling back in the desert . |
| 8 | We went in to the University and met up with Ian Jamieson , who invited us to come and stay with them for a few days . |
| 9 | After the successful tour of Japan and the trip on the Trans Siberian Express across Russia , stopping off in Moscow to see the May Day Parade , Bowie travelled overland to Paris and met up with Angie . |
| 10 | A creature like man , completely lacking the inbred altruism seen , for instance , in the worker bee , might well rebel against the altruistic demands of his society if it were readily apparent to him that his altruism was profoundly hypocritical and made up of components of inhibited egoism , self-directed sadism ( e. g. guilt ) and de-sexualized libido ( e.g. ‘ social feeling ’ ) . |
| 11 | And then that one conservative who did go and do it , he swapped places with people who were on the dole , and he went and lived up in Newcastle . |
| 12 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ Erika snapped her fingers and caught up with Karl . |
| 14 | A woman moved quickly and caught up with Eloise . |
| 15 | Then they came upon a clearing where there was a hut , made of lap-boarding with a verandah , and built up on bricks . |
| 16 | The family firm of M. Pearson & Son Ltd was started by his father in 1922 and built up by Lawrence to be one of the largest family companies in the North East . |
| 17 | A brightly polished black Citron followed them in and drew up beside Duclos ' horse . |
| 18 | He turned into a dusty side-street and drew up in front of a five-storey block of flats . |
| 19 | In one movement Rincewind unrolled and bounced up in front of the little man , his hands gripping his shoulders desperately . |
| 20 | The hero must be challenged and tormented , he must be bamboozled and tried up to breaking point before he is permitted to claim the prize , before , in fact , he is able properly to call himself a hero . |
| 21 | Collapsed like a pack of cards one day at work and woke up in hospital . ’ |
| 22 | James got the address out of Ginny and drove up to Plumford yesterday afternoon . |
| 23 | When it was all over we all squeezed into Steve 's van and drove up to Dingwalls , the club in Camden . |
| 24 | Although Donleavy had told him to stay clear of American officials overseas in case they were under surveillance by foreign intelligence agencies , Coleman assumed that Sasser had cleared the meeting with Control and drove up from Larnaca to keep the appointment , expecting to be briefed on some unexpected emergency . |
| 25 | When MBT80 fell by the wayside , the Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment at Chobham modified the design and came up with Challenger . |
| 26 | Being one of those who makes words out of initials , Julia , when first shown that number by the police , had changed mentally the V to U , as in the Latin alphabet , and came up with SUF , the first syllable of ‘ suffer ’ . |
| 27 | We put two and two together and came up with Barry . |
| 28 | So , after a very busy two more terms at the Royal College in which I gave my first recital , and also had a chance of playing the Beethoven Concerto No. 4 in G major at one of the Patron 's Fund Concerts with Adrian Boult as conductor , I left the College and came up to Oxford in October 1924 . |
| 29 | The woman opened the gate and came up to Kee . |
| 30 | We know you hired a boat , ’ he said , ‘ straight away after you came out of prison , and came up to Oban . |