Example sentences of "[vb past] up [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A minute after I got into the water a large woman in an orange bathing cap swam up and asked if I was a newspaper correspondent . |
| 2 | She went to the reception and a smiling woman in a white blouse and neat grey skirt rose up and asked if she could help her . |
| 3 | At the beginning of this week a girl phoned up and said that erm the chap he normally deals with is away |
| 4 | One very hot morning , when she was about nine years old , she woke up and saw that instead of Kamala there was a different Indian servant by her bed . |
| 5 | The morning I woke up and realised that perhaps the reason I resented young Tulloch s much was because I too was an observer of human beings and that this most likely derived from an equal failure to establish satisfactory human relationships , was not a happy one . |
| 6 | Mrs Johnson said ‘ No ! ’ indignantly , and Mrs Stych woke up and checked that the girl had her name down correctly , too . |
| 7 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |
| 8 | There were these two outrageous guys , splashing about , and they just came up and asked if I 'd ever considered doing anything in the advertising world and I said , ‘ No . ’ |
| 9 | Then one day the main guy who 'd been peeking at us turned up and asked if he could take some pictures of us . |
| 10 | Joanna , 25 , whom Brian befriended during training sessions at the centre , later turned up and confessed that her disappearance was a hoax . |
| 11 | But anyway I flared up and said that sort of remark was what we were supposed to be fighting the war about and I went for him . |
| 12 | I then piped up and asked if anyone realised that a large number of British soldiers were also involved . |
| 13 | Well , Gav and I met up as planned and had an ‘ interesting ’ drive to the match . |
| 14 | Miss Honey had heard the sound of Matilda 's feet racing over the gravel and now she straightened up and turned and stepped out of the rose-bed as the child came running up . |
| 15 | He also sold up and left because the only alternative in these miserable circumstances is to spend the rest of your life living next door to someone who will never speak to you again . |
| 16 | And suddenly , astonishingly , astonished , she began to weep , great sobs bursting out of her , tears leaping from her eyes , a kind of howling noise in her nose and throat , and Charles got up and came and sat by her and took her in his arms as she howled like a six-year-old . |
| 17 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |
| 18 | Sometimes , too , information was deliberately falsified , misrepresented , touched up or omitted or withheld from the pope , as by the emissaries of Baldwin IX of Flanders . |
| 19 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 20 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 21 | and she rang up and said that she wanted to go and would I go with her ? |
| 22 | ‘ I went up and sang and then I called my mother up to join me . |
| 23 | In fact , John Hill cleaned up as predicted and is off to New Zealand to plough proudly for Britain in the world championships . |
| 24 | It 's about time that you grew up and realised that I can not possibly be dancing attendance on you every five minutes . ’ |
| 25 | The merchant never looked up but nodded and muttered something to himself . |
| 26 | He looked up and yelled as another ember landed on his neck . |
| 27 | Eventually , thunder rumbled in the distance , and he looked up and asked if it was gun-fire ; when I said I thought not , he moved to the door saying , ‘ If Mr Colin recommends them , I 'll take all three ’ . |
| 28 | Chrissie looked up and saw that Jack was wearing his jacket . |
| 29 | Alexei looked up and saw that Kadan was laughing openly . |
| 30 | In confusion again , Louisa looked up and saw that the light was performing wondrously now across the lake . |