Example sentences of "as they [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 2 | KENT went run crazy yesterday as they piled up a 603 for eight — their highest total since 1934 — against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 3 | Newport were understrength , but Gloucester were on full power as they piled up the points . |
| 4 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 5 | The embalmers had done what they could but , even as they walked up the nave , both Cranston and Athelstan caught the whiff of putrefaction . |
| 6 | George was frowning in thought as they clattered up the prison-like stone steps to his set . |
| 7 | THE return of both Des Haynes and Angus Fraser had the desired effect on Middlesex 's fortunes during the early weeks of the season as they ran up a sequence of one-day wins . |
| 8 | Instead was a happy medley of Luke laughing , of taking her hand as they ran up a long flight of grey stone steps towards some vague but wonderful journey 's end . |
| 9 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 10 | ‘ Suppose old Hilbert 's face were to appear at the window now , ’ Adam had said as they went up the bask stairs to bed . |
| 11 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 12 | A glorious red butterfly with sapphire blue eyes on its wingtips fluttered and curtsied in front of me , moorland sheep scuttled reluctantly off the track as I ploughed towards them and a group of walkers cursed as they struggled up the bank . |
| 13 | The English had the advantage of a dominating position and they subjected the Scots to a devastating hail of arrows as they struggled up the slope to engage the English forces . |
| 14 | They became widely separated as they struggled up the slope . |
| 15 | Derby paid £800,000 for the England under-21 international with fellow strikers Phil Gee and Ian Ormondroyd moving to Filbert Street as they make up the rest of the deal . |
| 16 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 17 | As they shored up the ceiling with wooden planks , the cleared rubble was passed in buckets along a human chain of miners in the underground roadway . |
| 18 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 19 | Mother Bombie asked Evelyn as they trudged up the shingle path towards the girls ' house . |
| 20 | I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture . |
| 21 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 22 | It has been proposed that an early event in the development of colorectal tumours is the loss of the ability of colonic epithelial cells to undergo terminal differentiation as they migrate up the crypt towards the luminal surface . |
| 23 | ‘ I talked to Edna this week , ’ he began , as they started up a steep incline to the north of the city . |
| 24 | The engine of the bus protested bitterly and the close air filled with the heavy smell of petrol as they started up the steep brae . |
| 25 | Some of their moves were a delight to watch as they swept up the field constantly , and the rate of scoring hardly slackened all afternoon . |
| 26 | Though a good performance on the Gloucestershire track at any other time of the year counts for something , it 's nothing to get carried away over , while the top performers through the winter months elsewhere are often made to look ordinary as they toil up the Prestbury Park hill . |
| 27 | Masklin was just ahead of the other two as they raced up the aisle between the rows of humans , who paid no attention at all to three tiny blurs running between the seats . |
| 28 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 29 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 30 | So he looked at Matron , tight-faced and armored in starch , at Miss Guttner sitting lumpishly beyond her , her glasses shining blankly as they picked up the overhead light that filled the room with a necessary illumination against the heaviness of the sky pressing grayly against the windows . |