Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 2 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 3 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 4 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 5 | I do n't want them growing up like the Hales . |
| 6 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 7 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 8 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 9 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 10 | I mean I shout up to the bathroom , I mean |
| 11 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 12 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 13 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 14 | Hrun kicked away and scrambled to his feet , to find himself looking up into the wild horse-face of the dragon , its nostrils distended . |
| 15 | The gate swung outwards , and he found himself looking up at the massive head of a yawning dragon with creased cheek and jowl and a lolling red tongue . |
| 16 | When the guard came to he found himself looking up into the wild-eyed face of a wizard , who was menacing his throat with a sword . |
| 17 | In 1952 , James found himself caught up in the tide of Cold War paranoia sweeping America . |
| 18 | Auguste found himself caught up in the general excitement and cursed his heavy waterlogged costume . |
| 19 | Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I suggest you give up about the beginning of September . |
| 21 | Sandy Scratchley 's patrol was sent out to raid petrol dumps in the El Daba area and found itself caught up in the back yard of the retreating Germans . |
| 22 | Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 . |
| 23 | He wants you to go up to the villa . ’ |
| 24 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 25 | Every time she was about to put a foot on the floor she suddenly found herself tucked up under the bedclothes again . |
| 26 | As the day of the wedding drew closer , the young Campbell lass found herself caught up in the arrangements . |
| 27 | Sarella gave a gasp as she found herself staring up into the thunderous face of Marc himself . |
| 28 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 29 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 30 | Er and things like sort of er midday and a late evening er usually fine , and then you have y quite a lot of asthmatics say they wake up in the night , somewhere between two to five . |