Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness . |
| 2 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 3 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 4 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 5 | Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor . |
| 6 | And I got up on the wall right ? |
| 7 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 8 | And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no ! |
| 9 | I got up out the chair and er went out the front door and I said to her for God 's sake it 's Sunday ! |
| 10 | That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’ |
| 11 | I got up in the night and took fish out of your barrels , Harry Pascoe , 'cos I could n't abide the thought of being wed to you , do you hear me ? |
| 12 | Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning . |
| 13 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
| 14 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
| 15 | So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef ! |
| 16 | It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire ! |
| 17 | I got up from the table . |
| 18 | I got up from the grass and made my way back to the orchard as Jerry started to drop his shells in the dust cloud left in the wake of the speeding jeeps . |
| 19 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 20 | I fled up to the tree-house for my knitting but a branch gave way as I grabbed it and I was pitched into the river . |
| 21 | If she thought her troubles would be over when and if I caught up with the blackmailer , she was way off . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 24 | I was dismayed when I woke up to the fact that the plan was not to wait or extend the building but to send twenty people and their children away to start another church . |
| 25 | That 's when I woke up to the fact that there was something very wrong with the relationship , and very wrong with my life … ’ |
| 26 | The morning I was due to leave — the day Chernenko died — I woke up to the sound of Russian troops singing marching songs from the nearby barracks . |
| 27 | It was nearly dark when I woke up to the sound of Marcus calling me . |
| 28 | I woke up in the night a pain here |
| 29 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 30 | ‘ A couple of months before the wedding , I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about the arrangements , and the only thought in my head was ‘ Russia ’ . |