Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some time after eleven when noises were made about turning in , though as everyone stood up , to her surprise , though not anyone else 's , Travis said he was n't ready for bed yet and was going out . |
| 2 | Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray . |
| 3 | As I looked up at him he placed a steaming hot mess-tin full of what looked like Machonachie stew on the floor of the barn beside me. |
| 4 | As I looked up into his steely blue eyes I admit I did wonder what disparaging thoughts he was thinking about me . |
| 5 | As I looked up , I saw that water was beginning to slop in and trickle down the wall . |
| 6 | As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona . |
| 7 | As I biked up St Giles ’ yesterday afternoon I passed one of the group walking up to North Oxford . |
| 8 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 9 | Dawn ‘ beat the twilight into flakes of fire ’ as I cycled up Gleann Meinich . |
| 10 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 11 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 12 | Dad taught me a lot as I grew up . |
| 13 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 14 | And well I remember hearing about it and and saw it probably as I grew up myself . |
| 15 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I got an elbow in the face as I went up for a header and I remember putting my head down and running straight into Bull 's back . |
| 17 | As I came up out of the trough , the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier . |
| 18 | It was dark and the sea was rising rapidly as I came up the firth , keeping the bows in the direction of the flashing lighthouse on the White Hill of Vatster . |
| 19 | Like a young Robeson , with that tremendously wide face , yes , I saw him as I came up . |
| 20 | As I came up behind her , I saw what it was . |
| 21 | ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’ |
| 22 | I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden . |
| 23 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |
| 24 | Honestly , I had n't the slightest idea what I was going to say as I walked up to you . |
| 25 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 26 | But Clare was ten thousand miles away , I was thinking as I woke up , while Toma made fresh coffee and cooked me a man-sized breakfast of local bacon-cum-ham and two of the island 's tiny eggs . |
| 27 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 28 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 29 | As I got up to take it from him , there was a sharp rapping at the front door . |
| 30 | As I got up , the man from the radio came over and asked me what it was like as he was getting forced into doing it later on . |