Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As long as I get up in the morning .
2 As I stared up at the clear sky from the bottom of the trench , my mind drifted back to Achnacarry and Fiona .
3 It cheers me up as I come up in the lift and stagger out blinking in the daylight .
4 As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long .
5 ‘ The church clock was striking ten as I came up into the street from Custom House Quay . ’
6 I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden .
7 as I pant up towards the breathless heights .
8 As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear .
9 As you come up down the road on the left ha , on the left hand side but you got ta go down there
10 So as you come up on the approach side , think position .
11 As you wake up in the morning , you may hear yourself say , ‘ If you go back to sleep , you wo n't have time to have breakfast .
12 As you edge up to the line , keep nudging into wind as this will create a small gap downwind .
13 ‘ I think I need some advice , after all , ’ Hilary said quietly as she walked up to the little group .
14 She may work within a paradigm , and not be uninfluenced by how her mind was formed as she grew up within the discipline of science .
15 Franca surveyed her long athletic bare legs and the smudge of the scar on her knee as she reached up to the high shelf of a cupboard .
16 Lisa 's fists were clenched tightly at her sides as she rode up to the fourth floor in the silent lift .
17 Tonight she was smiling as she stared up at the screen , and Buddie had given her money .
18 As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track .
19 ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she began to apologise as she turned the lock and pulled back the door , ‘ I should have — ’ Then she stopped , speechless , as she stared up at the tall figure of Robert Sheldrake .
20 He saw the tiny shudder that went through her and felt himself go still as she went up to the horse and began to stroke its face , its flank .
21 Way in the background , Lucy could see Josie with her back to the door as she cleaned up around the makeup chair .
22 They laughed together , and as she locked up behind the girl Folly could n't help realising that that was something else she owed Luke , however indirectly .
23 As she cycled up to the ornate porch she always thought of chivalrous knights attending maidens dressed in high , pointed hats and long sweeping gowns .
24 Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling .
25 Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through .
26 As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her .
27 Relief and anger swept through her as she looked up into the familiar dark , scowling face .
28 The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study .
29 She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table .
30 As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles .
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