Example sentences of "up [conj] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 2 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 3 | If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation . |
| 4 | I need more people like my detective sergeant who rolls his sleeves up and gets on with the job . ’ |
| 5 | At night sometimes I 'm sleeping and I put me hand like that and he comes up and lays right across the back of my pillow . |
| 6 | Sam scrambles up and wades out to the bird . |
| 7 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |