Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |
| 2 | Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try . |
| 3 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 4 | ‘ In the stunned silence that followed , Miss Honey walked up to the front of the class and stood behind her table . |
| 5 | What Scotsman would not be captivated by the extraordinary vision of Linda Evangelista trussed up as the supermodel-from-Brigadoon ? |
| 6 | Only two minutes left when Richard Walker popped up on the proverbial back stick , sounds painful does n't it , and it was for Portsmouth . |
| 7 | While she was deciding whether to support the Denver Broncos or the Pittsburgh Pederasts ( whatever ) , I sneaked into the bedroom and nearly had a heart attack to find a three-foot Paddington Bear propped up on the pillow . |
| 8 | Money in the Royal Life and Hafnia funds rolls up inside the bonds tax free , because they are offshore . |
| 9 | The big oak table was laid in the hall , and quantities of Portugal wine brought up from the souterrain . |
| 10 | He was on the airport tarmac waiting for me , his Mercedes sports drawn up to the foot of the mobile steps . |
| 11 | The tan Mercedes sports slipped up to the main door . |
| 12 | Hari stood in Goat Street staring up at the facade of the old theatre and swallowed hard , trying to pluck up enough courage to walk into the ornate portico . |
| 13 | Angus Cameron stood up on the oak stump which Donald used as a chopping-block , held out his hand to each part of the crowd as though drawing them into the circuit of the ceremony , and said , at first quietly , then gaining volume as he felt the truth of his words : ‘ Alexander McLaggan , Mary Stewart — you love each other , and must wed each other , and that is right and good . |
| 14 | A HUMID evening in Boston early last summer ; afternoon rain has cleared , and at Fenway Park the lead-off batter for the visiting Baltimore Orioles steps up for the first pitch from the Red Sox . |
| 15 | To the west across the valley there was a fine view of the easy-angled slopes of the Hinku Nup glacier leading up to the Mingbo La ( 5817m ) . |
| 16 | Oxford United were heading for their second successive nil all game , when in the first minute of injury time , central defender , Andy Melville popped up in the penalty area to score a vital goal , and to give United three vital points in their fight against relegation . |
| 17 | and David Tennant grew up with the Burns boys ; together , they attended school , explored the ruined Kirk Alloway , and played on the ‘ banks and braes ’ of the nearby River Doon . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the infinitely more cred KEN LIVINGSTONE cropped up at the Africa Centre for SUEDE 's sweaty showcase . |
| 19 | While in 1965 at the Spencer Churchill sale top examples were changing hands for around £600 , and in the 1970s in the low thousands , the prices at the Castle Ashby sale shot up into the hundred thousands for the first time as new collectors , both Greek and American , competed against each other . |
| 20 | David Koresh grew up in the Bible belt . |
| 21 | The Strauss waltz started up in the bedroom . |
| 22 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 23 | He gave a thumbs-up sign then replaced it and manoeuvred his wheelchair round behind his desk where he tapped his security code into the IBM computer linked up to the central data bank elsewhere in the building . |
| 24 | Last month , IBM Corp teamed up with the writer , director and producer of Terminator 2 : Judgment Day , James Cameron , Academy Award winning character creator Stan Winston , and celebrated special visual effects studio executive Scott Ross to form Digital Domain Inc , a new visual effects and digital production studio . |
| 25 | Reynard Lennon , who had left a trail of confused , temporarily disabled security droids behind him , waited in the shadow of a large rhododendron hybrid in Acropolis Park and watched the Roirbak rotor dance up from the roof , wheel around and head towards Sector 2p . |
| 26 | Stunned schoolboy Simon Dove ended up with the blame after the real culprit gave a false name and address . |
| 27 | South Africa wakes up to the threat of AIDS |
| 28 | Liam Hamilton grew up in the mining village of Kilsyth . |
| 29 | Ironically , while McKean buried his accident-prone reputation , Brazil 's Jose-Luis Barbosa tripped up on the penultimate lap . |
| 30 | So should not the law be changed immediately to prevent the likes of Dr Cox ending up in the dock ? |