Example sentences of "and [vb past] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 2 | The water is the deepest hue of aquamarine and whipped up into meringue peaks . |
| 3 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 4 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 5 | He turned to the altar again and gazed up at Paddy 's back and tried to concentrate . |
| 6 | Willie stopped and gazed up at them . |
| 7 | He just sat in his chair and gazed up at Granny 's picture in its faded gilt frame . |
| 8 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 9 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 10 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 11 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 12 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 13 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 14 | ‘ Has that any special significance ? ’ she asked bravely as she crumpled down on to the blanket and gazed up at him . |
| 15 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 16 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 17 | Eighty-five per cent in special assistance to the Länder Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as to Land Berlin to cover their general financial requirements and divided up among these Länder in proportion to their number of inhabitants , excluding the inhabitants of Berlin ( West ) , and |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 21 | ‘ Let the Council clear it up , ’ he said , and doubled up in silent mirth at the thought of flouting authority . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | According to Virginia Cowles , he dropped with Lewes 's party , but others say that he was left at Kabrit as a result of injuries during training and met up with the survivors later . |
| 24 | Still clutching this souvenir , he and his group made their rendezvous and met up with Stirling back in the desert . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We spent a day ashore on Barentsøya where the Dutch party went off inland on their own and met up with a polar bear with two cubs , which ran off when they saw the party . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She then ran back to the railway station and met up with her boyfriend . |
| 29 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 30 | and read up to the summer |