Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 32 | The taxi drew up opposite the Battersea Bridge end of the boats . |
| 33 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 34 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 35 | A few moments later , however , a taxi drew up to the kerb and he thrust his golden head out of the window . |
| 36 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 37 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 38 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 39 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 40 | A light van drew up on the wharf , and a man got out and dropped a large quantity of cardboard boxes over the side of the wharf onto the deck . |
| 41 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 42 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 43 | Mrs Stych drew up at the kerb in her new European car , bought , needless to say , from Maxie 's arch-rival down in Edmonton . |
| 44 | The cab drew up at the kerb . |
| 45 | Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN . |
| 46 | We drew up at the house at last , and the man came round to help me down . |
| 47 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 48 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 49 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 50 | A bus drew up at the lights and the driver , an excitable Puerto Rican , climbed down from his cab to see what all the fuss was about . |
| 51 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 52 | Railways van drew up outside the big house . |
| 53 | As she did there was a screech of brakes and another car drew up outside the cottage opposite , causing her to glance up . |
| 54 | So when her car drew up outside the refuge house on Tuesday there was n't a soul around . |
| 55 | The car that drew up outside the villa at sunset was of an obsolete make , long in the bonnet , high on the wheels , cared for , faintly absurd , the kind of car that nowadays would be called vintage . |
| 56 | Not wishing to antagonize Harry , when finally they drew up outside the little cottage in Melton Mowbray to which Mrs Appleby had now retired , Madeleine allowed herself to be persuaded inside . |
| 57 | Her eyes were almost closing when she finally drew up outside the villa . |
| 58 | The car drew up outside the church . |
| 59 | Police say a car containing three men drew up outside the house in Hudson Street . |
| 60 | When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke . |