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Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	A blue shape that swam up in the doorway .
2	An odour of dank river air swam up from the river .
3	Darkness seeped up from the earth .
4	An explosion of methane gas which seeped up from the ground in Derbyshire 5 years ago demolished a pensioner 's house .
5	He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job .
6	‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there .
7	And , them will survive there , but during er the Winter , starting October , you could see the face of the plantation of that was facing the sea , it all scorched up towards the end of O of er December .
8	The heat from the front room rose up through the floorboards so that the room , although bare , was warm .
9	‘ A vast pillar of fire rose up through the floor and decimated the display of the Nugahiro Corporation 's new range of lap-top computers ! ’
10	Their chanting rose up through the vaulted roof of the Cistercian chapel .
11	The bullet punched through armour plate , the tank exploded , and the arvee rose up into the air in a whirl of flame .
12	The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight .
13	Nothing was left but a clearing in the forest and a flock of doves who rose up into the air , wheeled round , and flew off .
14	The glider rose up into the atmosphere .
15	Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky .
16	The wheel gathered momentum as they rose up to the top : balanced , it seemed , on nothingness for a precarious second , then plunged , in a stomach-churning dive , back to earth again .
17	There was a wide space beside the staircase , the stairs rose up to the boys ' bedroom wall , then turned left to join the landing .
18	They stood together on the hillside that rose up behind the Castle .
19	On my right , across the river , steep forested banks rose up from the water .
20	Another time , a photographer had ventured onto the reef that rose up from the sea at the far corner .
21	As the very last mouthful disappeared , a tremendous cheer rose up from the audience and children were leaping on to their chairs and yelling and clapping and shouting , ‘ Well done , Brucie !
22	His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave .
23	Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves .
24	A blast of warm foetid air rose up from the precipitous staircase to greet us .
25	She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them .
26	It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’
27	In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime .
28	That is why the people of Scotland rose up against the rating system .
29	There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied .
30	The great beeches towered up towards the sky , their grey smooth trunks like the columns of an abbey church , and about their roots short grasses grew , gay with harebells and scentless violets among which indolently flitted small butterflies more blue than the flowers .