Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 2 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 3 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 4 | Some people might say I do n't show any emotion but every time a goal went in there always seemed to be a picture of someone jumping up from the bench . |
| 5 | FLOORS Wherever there is water or liquid , there is the danger of it ending up on the floor and causing you to slip . |
| 6 | It was of the two of us leaning up against the Arch of Titus in Rome — we had bullied some fellow tourist into taking it for us . |
| 7 | When , or if , the four leagues of ten were in place , one club would be automatically relegated from the Premier Division , with one coming up from the league beneath . |
| 8 | Monday was always busy with everybody stocking up after the weekend and by the time he arrived back at Number 112 for his afternoon tea he was exhausted . |
| 9 | The claim was made by the prosecution in its summing up at the trial of Lou Macari and Brian Hillier , who deny conspiring to defraud the Inland Revenue . |
| 10 | Well , there had been neither the commanding tone nor the easy insolence from that couple ; and yet , in a way she knew her father was right in his summing up of the gentry . |
| 11 | In his summing up at the end of ‘ Prospect ’ , the Chief of Air Staff , Sir Dermot Boyle , publicly expressed the RAF 's opposition to the Sandys Reformation . |