Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly Mr Crick got up from his stool . |
| 2 | Rain confessed as much when Shildon checked up on her progress . |
| 3 | ‘ He thinks I 'm his mother ’ she said blissfully , as Patrick gazed up at her from her lap — dolls will never be quite the same again . |
| 4 | Tony Smith 's ( non-flying ) Flying Flea lines up with the C100 below to make a pair of early private pilot machines . |
| 5 | Lord Lawson lines up alongside other members of the old guard such as Lord Howe , the late Lord Ridley and Lady Thatcher herself , who have been banging on the monetarist drum with the message that the deficit is one of the keys to the economy . |
| 6 | Dan got up from the breakfast bar . |
| 7 | Dr Mortimer got up from his chair . |
| 8 | William got up from his chair at the workbench and went over to open up with a puzzled frown . |
| 9 | TRAINER John Gosden made up for Brier Creek 's narrow Ebor defeat when Badawi took the Andy Capp Handicap at York yesterday , writes Carles Fawcus . |
| 10 | Philippa got up from the chair she had brought into the kitchen , went to take the cloth from Lee 's lap , decided against it , and started to wipe up the insidious liquid with tissues . |
| 11 | When a Masai owned up to cattle raiding and invited punishment he did so in a spirit , not of insolent defiance , but of self-respect . |
| 12 | Le Tissier made up for his earlier error after 72 minutes when he crashed home a 30-yard a left-foot volley but his team could find no way back . |
| 13 | Rosheen sprung up from her couch in panic as she remembered what Sheldukher had done to her . |
| 14 | 1.00:TOP weight BOLLIN WILLIAM bolted up by 10 lengths on his reappearance at Bangor eight days ago , and will be very hard to beat in this less competitive contest off just an 8lb higher mark . |
| 15 | Suspicion rose up in me like bile . |
| 16 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 17 | LEFT Images of Uranus built up from information sent back in 1986 by Voyager 2 ; the image on the right is in false colour and extreme contrast enhancement to show details of Uranus 's polar regions . |
| 18 | As she hesitated for a split-second when her escape was barred by the dancers , Roman caught up with her , grabbed her arm , hauled her to a standstill . |
| 19 | Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ? |
| 20 | Whitlock caught up with Mobuto but remained discreetly in the background while he finished talking to the Chief of Protocol . |
| 21 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 22 | When Ven drew up outside her hotel , Fabia went on to realise just how kind he had been to give up so much of his time . |
| 23 | Combine all that with a superb sunshine record , oodles of local bonhomie by both day and night , and we think you 'll agree Seefeld adds up to an Eagle of a holiday ! |
| 24 | As he sat in his red Toyota MR2 near Hyde Park Corner , cabbie Malcolm Egerton drew up beside him . |
| 25 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 26 | Ruth had called to see Mrs Johnson , looked in on one or two of the other neighbours , and was halfway up the hill to the churchyard before Maria caught up with her . |
| 27 | Maria caught up with her as they reached the end of the village . |
| 28 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 29 | Frere got up from his chair , hating himself , to prowl the room like a caged panther . |
| 30 | Aldhelm got up from the turf on which a new and unsteady lamb was also trying to get to its feet , nuzzled by the quivering ewe . |