Example sentences of "[vb past] up [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 2 | A billowing wave of darkness rose up and sucked her to its depths , and she sank to the floor . |
| 3 | Anyway , after about half an hour — the whole lesson — I just dried up and said something like , ‘ Well , that 's it . ’ |
| 4 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 5 | The mosquitos came up and bit me in the dark . |
| 6 | Then , slowly , his right hand came up and peeled hers from his arm . |
| 7 | She would n't acknowledge an Eternal Verity if one came up and smacked her in the chops . |
| 8 | A muscular leg came up and trapped hers beneath it . |
| 9 | The fist came up and caught him on the side of the head and Jack went down , seeing little sparkling stars . |
| 10 | There they would line Hollins Hill as the walkers toiled up and cheer them on their way . |
| 11 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 12 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 13 | Celia got up and followed her into the kitchen , and there were muffled sounds of crying . |
| 14 | I got up and kissed her on the way up and went to meet the boys . |
| 15 | A guardsman got up and thanked him in English for granting the battalion a week 's leave . |
| 16 | He said as much when he got up and drove me to the airport . ’ |
| 17 | Suddenly the official got up and took me to the lift . |
| 18 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 19 | Madame Gautier held the small silver tray of chocolates out for Ellie , who unable to resist , got up and helped herself to another one . |
| 20 | When she was alone on the terrace , she found herself staring fixedly at a cockroach as it scuttled around in the heat , then got up and hammered it to death with her shoe . |
| 21 | Josh sprang up and helped her into a chair . |
| 22 | Phrases leapt up and hit him with a force which was almost physical . |
| 23 | At noon Sir Michael Adeane rang up and asked me to be at the Palace at 2 o'clock . |
| 24 | So I rang up and told them in the office . |
| 25 | The vicar ‘ came down to the steps at the top of the nave , accompanied by a server with a basket of palms and we all went up and got one except J[ack] . ’ |
| 26 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 27 | But hardly had the applause for the Collector died down when two hands reached up and dragged him down the stairs by his braces and into the crowd . |
| 28 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 29 | She took a joint from the pack , lit up and offered one to Mitchum who accepted . |
| 30 | After calling Willie several times and getting no response , he eventually gave up and tapped him on the shoulder . |