Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blinking in the sunshine that fell on his face , Tug swam up out of the horrors of the darkness . |
| 2 | No-one lives up here in the cleft of the White Kielder Burn . |
| 3 | Before Anabelle could learn more , however , they heard a splash in the canal and turned to see a little brown head bobbing up out of the water . |
| 4 | In fact , today 's activities had offered some hours of reprieve from thoughts of him — at least until such time as they were due to meet up later in the afternoon . |
| 5 | The rugged mountains rose up straight from the river banks and were shaded in greens and browns with gashes of copper where erosion has taken its toll . |
| 6 | Wild brown hills of heather and bracken rose up steeply behind the house , just beyond a red-jewelled fuchsia hedge and a grove of mysterious scrub oaks . |
| 7 | Rich raw smells of tar , rotting excrement , spices and brine rose up along with the sight of ship masts , looped sails , small boats beached on the first mud of the receding tide , sailors in striped breeches and greasy caps leaning on the wooden railings , others arm in arm on their way to the taverns , piled kegs and crates , winches , the last of the horsedrawn sleds and — a gathering knot of people beyond a bonded warehouse . |
| 8 | Guido drew up abruptly at the side of the road . |
| 9 | He charged up out of the canal and shook himself , splattering water everywhere . |
| 10 | We 'll tie up just beyond the lock , just in front of those other boats . ’ |
| 11 | This does not tie up entirely with the records of Hal Far , which noted that three Fulmars went up , and that one was damaged and the pilot slightly wounded . |
| 12 | They completed a circular walk through the woods , tramping through leaves and bracken and ending up back at the minibus where Sybil announced it was time to go back to Conway House for lunch . |
| 13 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 14 | If she did n't get some decent sleep soon , she 'd be in severe danger of cracking up completely under the strain . |
| 15 | And he moved up here after the war , World War One . |
| 16 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 17 | One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top . |
| 18 | Something come up there onto the brink of the gulf , |
| 19 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 20 | Much of the mercury that escapes in to the soil and the air and in to the water , finishes up here in the rivers , and there it reacts with naturally occurring compounds to form a compound called methyl mercury which is far more dangerous to man than is mercury itself . |
| 21 | She hummed a tune and pretended to care about tasting a fragment of fish she 'd pinched up out of the herby broth . |
| 22 | A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic . |
| 23 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 24 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 25 | Its dominance over other media built up steadily through the 1980s ( Table 6.13 ) . |
| 26 | There followed a period of comparative quiet , while the water built up again behind the top step and those beneath . |
| 27 | Yeah , well before sh he was born , she stopped doing them and er she phoned up out of the blue and so said to her , no they live at Bognor I think or something . |
| 28 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 29 | And the suggestion to this Committee was that it looked , that it looked further at the five hundred thousand pounds guideline that 's been set to address the apparent shortfall on community care funding , and also that you should look at further service reductions and their implications erm , of reductions of a further two hundred and fifty thousand , and those are again picked up later in the paper . |
| 30 | Like one of those European taxis that you get picked up in at the airport in Paris . ’ |