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 . |