Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A huge curtain of grey cliff rose up in front of him , the lie of the ground making its appearance seem instant and magical , like scenery in a theatre . |
| 2 | The clouds rose up in front of God 's throne . |
| 3 | As the car drew up in front of the Lodge with a crunch of gravel , Detective Sergeant Allen strode out to meet them . |
| 4 | The huge wooden gates were opened by a legionnaire in combat kit with a FA-MAS assault rifle slung across his chest , and his beret tilted over his right eye ; we drew up in front of a five-storey building and got out . |
| 5 | It was raining as we drew up in front of the building and started unpacking our kit . |
| 6 | He drew up in front of a pair of wrought-iron gates where he was immediately challenged by a bearded man wearing jeans and a faded black T-shirt . |
| 7 | When he brought her back he just drew up in front of the villa , jumped out , opened door , kissed hand , ‘ Bon soir , Madame , ’ and he was off . |
| 8 | Across the road , a taxi drew up in front of the august jewellers and a man in pinstripe trousers and black jacket got out , then helped a woman with magnificent grey hair to alight . |
| 9 | They were both silent , busy with their own thoughts , apart from her directions , until he drew up in front of the divided house that contained her tiny flat . |
| 10 | ‘ You bitch ! ’ he whispered as the car drew up in front of the country house hotel that her father had decided was good enough for the reception to celebrate the wedding of his only daughter to the reigning world champion . |
| 11 | They drew up in front of a pair of steel gates topped with spikes . |
| 12 | Morse made no reply , and two minutes later Lewis drew up in front of The Randolph . |
| 13 | But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of . |
| 14 | He turned into a dusty side-street and drew up in front of a five-storey block of flats . |
| 15 | When I sit down they billow up in front of me and I look as if I 've got a water melon under there . |
| 16 | His attention was jerked back to the issue at hand as the tennis ball bounced up in front of him , hitting him in the face . |
| 17 | In one movement Rincewind unrolled and bounced up in front of the little man , his hands gripping his shoulders desperately . |
| 18 | He knelt up in front of me , our bodies touching from shoulder to knee , his hands in my hair , his mouth at the side of mine . |
| 19 | The tumour had recurred and he had four previous operations , ending up with anastomosis of duodenum to mid-transverse colon . |
| 20 | He spent 18 years working for Ford , ending up as manager of its Dearborn assembly plant . |
| 21 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 22 | So you 're going to stand up in front of a judge and say all that , are you , Wally ? |
| 23 | Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill . |
| 24 | There he was encouraged to stand up in front of other patients and describe his own particular addiction . |
| 25 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 26 | You 're going to stand up in front of a hundred or so of your closest friends and tell them your deepest , most private thoughts . ’ |
| 27 | Well of course tha that might just be intimidation by large numbers of other people , like you know having to stand up in front of a group of other people , I think anybody feels the same . |
| 28 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 29 | On 9 February 1922 a letter of complaint to the press from postmen headed ‘ The uncommunicative Commissariat ’ stated that the Moscow post office , with 4,000 employees , was frozen up for lack of snow-cleaners . |
| 30 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |