Example sentences of "it [vb past] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 2 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 3 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
| 4 | It came up with a risky and controversial course of action : close the county 's ‘ surplus ’ long-stay residential homes and reinvest in specialist community-based services for elderly people . |
| 5 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 6 | It fetched up on a sandbank . |
| 7 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 8 | Peter Simpkins , who made the find , said : ‘ It showed up on a screen and all we had to do was dig it up . ’ |
| 9 | This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window . |
| 10 | It popped up in a recent Capes , Dunn sale of toys , teddy bears , model railways et al and made £190 . |
| 11 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 12 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
| 13 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 14 | It grew up as a series of local conventions , through people responding to one another 's behaviour ; the individual soldiers were probably hardly aware that the growing up was going on . |
| 15 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 16 | As night fell on Stabiae , Vesuvius presented an awesome sight , with the oppressively heavy ash cloud above it lit up in a baleful red glare from the many fires that had been started by the rain of hot ash . |
| 17 | To better appreciate the size of the sea , one can perhaps imagine it heaped up into a cube . |
| 18 | After that it picked up for a while , and we looked quite sharp again . |
| 19 | Evans is convinced it ended up with a better dealer than it started with , and has £2m of cash to play with . |
| 20 | And then , when he could n't step back any further , he would walk forward , watching the shadow shrink before him until it ended up as a small and pathetic figure beneath his feet . |
| 21 | Then we did n't achieve , we 're did n't produce a work plan or organiser , we went straight in , people were hacking out bits of papers , you know , it ended up as a big pile of words you know . |
| 22 | Anyway it ended up in a fight and he started pushing me around and went to punch me in the stomach but I managed to stop him . |
| 23 | It sat up like a squirrel , its spruce brown back tinted chestnut in the sunlight , its belly cream-coloured . |