Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Frankenstein 's gaze had recently done , my gaze turned up to the ceiling , beyond which lay the laboratory — with all its gruesome secrets now accessible to me ! |
| 2 | It was my job to check up on the flock every morning and on Sundays Uncle Joe would come to the farm . |
| 3 | I was dragged out of the cave , through the waterfall , to lie on my back gazing up at the fast-moving clouds in the blue sky ; and I thought to myself , Those clouds are free , just as I was until now . |
| 4 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 5 | ‘ My friend Sheilagh up on the mountain is very nervy and distraught until she has her turf in . |
| 6 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 7 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 8 | My tongue hangs up in the leaves |
| 9 | The red of my anger bubbled up like the rosy orange juice squeezed by the vendors ' machines in the main street in our village . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |
| 11 | My mother looked up from the sewing machine . |
| 12 | However , this increase in speed must not be relied on if the launch is too slow and the pilot wants more speed , because the cause of a slow launch may be the beginning of a power failure , in which case steepening up in the hope of creating more speed would be dangerous . |
| 13 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 14 | But when she was over here , she sold up and her sister sold up at the same time . |
| 15 | Only 18 to 25 per cent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit . |
| 16 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 17 | This mother has forced her tot to face up to the ordeal of withdrawal symptoms because she could n't control her own habit . |
| 18 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 19 | A civilian judge investigating the case died on Nov. 19 when her car blew up in the capital , Santiago . |
| 20 | So when her car drew up outside the refuge house on Tuesday there was n't a soul around . |
| 21 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 22 | Ashley was balanced on the edge of the skip with her arms stretching unsuccessfully down and her bottom stuck up in the air when , from the dark , smelly depths , she heard a car door slam . |
| 23 | Many of the cahiers ( the statements of grievances and proposals for their rectification drawn up for the guidance of the States-General when it met in May 1789 ) proposed the building of public monuments to Louis XVI in recognition of his action in calling the States-General and thus restoring the ‘ liberties ’ of his people . |
| 24 | Bourgeois literature was unequivocally condemned on three counts : first , for its failure to voice opposition to the First World War , a failure in other words to disclose the true reality of the war as an imperialist struggle ; secondly , for its refusal to offer an accurate depiction of the Soviet revolution , a failure explained as the cowardly refusal of the bourgeois writer to disclose the deepening crisis of capitalism after 1929 , a crisis highlighted by the success of the five year plan in the Soviet Union ; finally , for its refusal to face up to the growing threat of fascism . |
| 25 | When their ball ended up on the roof of the Bentley Road Health Centre , the 12 year-old clambered up to try to get it . |
| 26 | Their taxi pulled up outside The Anabaptist Reform Church and Felix Henderson McMurdo climbed out . |
| 27 | Robyn lay on her back looking up at the cloudless sky . |
| 28 | She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling and her thoughts immediately flashed back to Luke and last night . |
| 29 | Richard and John barred any further advance by holding Châteauroux long enough to permit their father to come up with the main Angevin army and force Philip to raise the siege . |
| 30 | Construct a safety bar ( which is removable ) just below the level of the lower stable door so that when you open the stable door your mare can still rush across , but her breast comes up against the bar . |