Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lost speed and pulled up outside the kiosk with a squeal of brakes . |
| 2 | They travelled up the goods line from Blackburn waited for a clear road at Hellifield Junction , got onto the long drag and worked up to the summit . |
| 3 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 4 | We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us . |
| 5 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 6 | With the paperwork finished , it 's across to the Mess for a cup of tea and to catch up on the rest of the news . |
| 7 | The old cheese presses which had lain dusty in the stable loft were brought down with difficulty on account of their immense weight and set up on the flagged floor . |
| 8 | Others pack up a tent , put the dinghy in the back of the car and disappear up to the west coast of Scotland with only a collection of Arthur Ransome books for company . |
| 9 | And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there . |
| 10 | Shelley swallowed the lump in her throat and said hoarsely , trying to be businesslike , ‘ I 'll accept that , because I thought instead of flying home I 'd like to hire a car and drive up to the north — see something of the rest of the country . ’ |
| 11 | There , he 'd worked for the Corps ' news service , been wounded , gone home to study journalism at college and ended up with the Associated Press . |
| 12 | In some countries rebels make up their own military force and rise up against the government . |
| 13 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 14 | Change hands , push to where you were sitting , crouch in the middle of the boat and straighten up on the new course . |
| 15 | The club has covenanted to keep H24/V72 ‘ in good condition and to deliver up upon the occasion the whole pitch being replaced by new turf or a synthetic surface ; the club or its successors ceasing to exist ; the club or its successors granting the supporter a date and time upon which H24/V72 may be removed . ’ |
| 16 | The F40 swung into the entrance and pulled up outside the terminal . |
| 17 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 18 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 19 | Morthen kicked the wild horse and galloped up to the earth wall . |
| 20 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 21 | So it 's very easy for bacteria , which are always present around the anus , to reach the usually bacteria-free urethra and travel up into the bladder where they multiply and irritate the bladder lining . |
| 22 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 23 | And all he had to do was to stay in the sun and turn up on the lot when a suitable — or unsuitable ( he was used to taking the rough with the smooth ) — script came up . |
| 24 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 25 | The grass was lush green and came up to the st'lyan 's hocks . |
| 26 | Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window . |
| 27 | Very flat on the bottom and turned up to the bow and that 's what the salmon fishers used in the in the rivers for pulling their nets in and fishing salmon on the . |
| 28 | The water , flooding over the pastures in winter and oozing up through the summer marshes , held the key to these balanced systems . |
| 29 | This unthreatening introduction into discussing a marital difficulty and an explanation that a combination of therapy approaches , that is managing the child and facing up to the marital disagreements , is likely to be most effective and help the parents understand the link . |
| 30 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |