Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 2 | Without being particularly conscious of where they were going , he and Cora-Beth had ended up in the big barn containing bales of straw for the loose boxes . |
| 3 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 4 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 5 | Unemployment peaked at over two per cent in 1967 , then fell off , and Germany continued to absorb up to two million ‘ guest ’ workers from Turkey , Yugoslavia and elsewhere . |
| 6 | Adam stared , struggling to get back to his feet ; and confusion seemed to burn up in his face . |
| 7 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 8 | Just when she thought they 'd got away from it , change and disruption had caught up with them again . |
| 9 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 10 | Thérèse and Léonie stood crushed up against adults they did not know . |
| 11 | Great thicknesses of pumice and ash had piled up on the slopes of Vesuvius above Herculaneum , and this loose material very rapidly became saturated by torrential rainstorms which may have been triggered by the eruption cloud itself : the dust particles acting as nuclei on which water vapour could condense to form droplets . |
| 12 | They politely said goodbye , and Duncan left to catch up with Myeloski . |
| 13 | Carrie hurried through the evening street and Fred struggled to keep up with her . |
| 14 | As the day wore on they heard everywhere around them the rill of running water , and grass began to poke up through the snow in clumps . |
| 15 | And if , later that day , 20 newsmen and photographers had turned up at our family bonfire party and witnessed my hysterical attempt to restrain my husband from re-lighting that dud super-rocket ( well , I was n't sure his life insurance was paid up ) , speculation as to the real state of our marriage could doubtless have made dramatic headlines . |
| 16 | Then one day Mark was lumbering up Parliament Hill , and Babur came running up from behind . |
| 17 | By 1985 nearly all the main broking firms and jobbers had linked up with financial institutions , both domestic and foreign . |
| 18 | Rosheen and Klift had caught up with them . |
| 19 | He said a film of dirt and oil had built up on roads during the long , dry spell . |
| 20 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 21 | Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series . |
| 22 | His new cap and goggles got hung up in the undergrowth ; he pulled , got hung up again , jerked savagely and emerged without them , his long hair falling down tangled and wet to his waist . |