Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [pron] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 2 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 3 | John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 4 | ‘ … on a piece of ground 3 feet long and 2 feet wide , dug and cleared , and where there could be no choking from other plants , I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up , and out of 357 no less than 295 were destroyed , chiefly by slugs and insects . |
| 5 | But by then she was so inwardly tense at the deception which through love and loyalty she had to perform that she barely noticed the grand buildings as she drove up out of the valley to where the town ended and a tarmacked road through woodland began . |
| 6 | Chatfield 's ball-handling and kicking skills saw Rovers race to an 11-0 lead in the opening 25 minutes as he set up tries for Aussie centre David Liddiard and second rower Andy Thompson . |
| 7 | It was something he found hard to understand , though of course it must be accepted , this escape of children from the parental bonds so that they could have secrets from you and hiding places you could n't penetrate , that they were adults and possessed houses and cars which you had no hand in choosing or buying , that they could lock up those houses as they locked up their thoughts . |
| 8 | ‘ You should have seen the smug self satisfaction on the faces of those bitches as they lined up to kiss me , ’ she rasped . |
| 9 | But it did n't stop him bumping into her every five minutes as she set up the slithering plastic tent , the heaters . |
| 10 | Indeed , children only very rarely stay in communal arrangements as they grow up . |
| 11 | Chairman , it is there for your information , I 'm not certain we 've got a representative of property funding , but try and deal with any comments as they come up . |
| 12 | The vehicles were fired upon by two men in civilian clothes as they pulled up to a T-junction . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough showed their battling qualities as they soaked up strong second-half pressure , and even survived a hotly disputed penalty . |