Example sentences of "up [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he stood up to greet her in the lobby of the hotel , her heart contracted a little with love . |
| 2 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 3 | ON A London Saturday , an unknown and unsigned dance band called Motion Incorporated were supposedly playing second billing to My Jealous God , and ended up catapulting themselves into the crowd 's heart . |
| 4 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 5 | They kindly squashed up to let us into the shelter , whereupon all conversation ceased . |
| 6 | I nearly lost my life again , when a lady picked me up to put me in the boat . |
| 7 | As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold . |
| 8 | Taboos against touching , and against speaking the name of a dead person , are set up to protect them from the hostility of the dead as they see it . |
| 9 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
| 10 | I ended up chasing her around the house fucking photo . |
| 11 | But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft . |
| 12 | No I ended up putting them in the box Joan had him out yesterday . |
| 13 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |
| 14 | In 1979 fourteen committees were set up to concern themselves with the work of specific ( or in some cases two specific ) government departments . |
| 15 | Almost every afternoon when Charlie was at school he turned up to take him to the studio to rehearse with his band . |
| 16 | He is a seasoned traveller as well as an agile ladder climber , often coming up to join us on the roof . |
| 17 | The first Sara had known of Adam 's injury was when she had turned up to collect him at the school gate . |
| 18 | She thought fleetingly of the weapon he might have picked up to strike her over the head as she sat at his mercy . |