Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 2 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 3 | Visitors caught lighting up in the space age reception area at ITN 's spanking new London HQ are told in no uncertain terms that smoking is NOT allowed . |
| 4 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 5 | And Mrs Fawcett came rushing up to the hospital with the perfect solution : she lent me a battery-operated portable radio . |
| 6 | I thought she was talking about you , I mean she never mentioned no names when she came rushing up to the top just the same , do n't know what 's the matter with Wynne today , the edge there Lynda . |
| 7 | The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door . |
| 8 | That fish came zooming up to the top then , to see what you were doing . |
| 9 | The sound of singing came drifting up from the quays below . |
| 10 | Mrs Joyce , the cook , came panting up from the kitchen with the two maid-servants behind her , her hands and wrists covered in flour , while Uncle Walter and his sister peeped wide-eyed from behind the curtains . |
| 11 | She came running up to the van and climbed in beside him . |
| 12 | The organ could not approach this strangled cry that came welling up from the bowels , from the primitive consciousness of life , of pain , of joy ; the long , tortured note that slowly unwound your intestines to be twanged by the electric guitarist . |
| 13 | The heavy sound of the door-knocker came beating up from the bottom of the house . |
| 14 | A Thames Valley Police spokesman said : ‘ We 're hoping Mr Hayden can tell us what happened leading up to the crash . ’ |
| 15 | Cissie hated going to bed , and she hated getting up in the morning , but she thoroughly enjoyed lazing in the bath , and finding every excuse not to say goodnight . |
| 16 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 17 | Soon genuine celebrities descended from on high and began showing up on the show . |
| 18 | Tabby immediately began nuzzling up against the frog in a very friendly way , unlike the other two cats who kept in the background , backs arched and humming frantically . |
| 19 | Sitting back to enjoy the mid-morning sun the bobbin on the rod with corn on started jumping up to the butt and a quick strike saw the first fish of the session go screaming off up the lake . |
| 20 | She loved sitting up with the children until long past bedtime , playing silly games or just holding them in her arms and carrying on a conversation at their absurd level . |
| 21 | We often got into trouble with foreign seamen that came there and they started making up to the Chinamen 's wives . |
| 22 | It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it . |
| 23 | To avoid it , it meant climbing up from the Glen Lyon side and attacking the Ben via the three westerly Munros that share its ridge . |
| 24 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 25 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 26 | Blue magnesium flares went spiralling up into the chilly night . |
| 27 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |
| 28 | He kept running up to the cross-street turned right back towards M slowing but glancing at his watch to excuse a half-jog |
| 29 | Why do you think these mentions of him kept cropping up over the years ? |
| 30 | He remembered waking up in the middle of the night , and then he remembered Miss Tomm walking into the dormitory and saying that the headmaster wanted to see him and Cartwright saying : " Eee , what 's Fleming done ? " |