Example sentences of "[vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blinking in the sunshine that fell on his face , Tug swam up out of the horrors of the darkness . |
| 2 | He swam up to her and said , ‘ If you want to surf like a man you 're going to be treated like a man . ’ |
| 3 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 4 | A minute after I got into the water a large woman in an orange bathing cap swam up and asked if I was a newspaper correspondent . |
| 5 | He swam up and away from the tangle of lines and disappeared on the other side of the iceberg . |
| 6 | The salmon swam up only those streams which had been chemically scented . |
| 7 | An odour of dank river air swam up from the river . |
| 8 | When he closed his eyes , fatigue swam up at him in a mazy spiral , making his head spin as if he were drunk . |
| 9 | stars swam up as if to graze |
| 10 | A blue shape that swam up in the doorway . |
| 11 | She swam up slowly . |
| 12 | When a dark shape swam up at her and blotted the dancers from her view , she smiled , began to say yes of course I 'll dance . |
| 13 | He swam up to her . |
| 14 | The formation swam up as Woolley held the flight in its dive . |
| 15 | And so if you swam up to somebody who was in difficulty , and you approach them from the front their automatic reaction is to throw their arms around you , do n't let them do it ! |
| 16 | There were few people about , but the noise of the engines brought figures from shops and houses and pale faces , their eyes shielded , strained up at them . |
| 17 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 18 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 19 | Somehow I was back next day with two friends , Bob Brewer and Mark Pudney , soloing again while they roped up . |
| 20 | Darkness seeped up from the earth . |
| 21 | where hour after hour the blood seeped up |
| 22 | An explosion of methane gas which seeped up from the ground in Derbyshire 5 years ago demolished a pensioner 's house . |
| 23 | The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section . |
| 24 | Dougal levered up the rectangle of hardwood . |
| 25 | In his chagrin he wandered up on to Moel Siabod above his home , where a clump of purple flowers amongst the grey rocks of the mountain caught his eye , just as they might that of some solitary wanderer today . |
| 26 | I began by taking the cable-car and the chairlift beyond it , then wandered up the lower glacier to the hut . |
| 27 | We wandered up and down to the inadequate refreshment kiosk , drinking soda and eating buns . |
| 28 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 29 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 30 | ‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there . |