Example sentences of "and [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kicking her shoes off , she rested her head on an antimacassar and gazed up at the chandelier . |
| 2 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 3 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 4 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 5 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 6 | He rested his dark head against the pillows and gazed up at the ceiling as he spoke . |
| 7 | She dropped her head back to relieve the tension in her neck , and gazed up at the rigging . |
| 8 | Nervously she smoothed down her saffron-coloured skirt and gazed up at the house as Steve , with bounding energy , leapt out of the Suzuki . |
| 9 | She finished her coffee , and gazed up at the hillside , where Rafaelo 's white villa caught the sun , and his growing vegetables and vines lay in neat terraces up the hill . |
| 10 | It requires an adult to participate and stay up for the night . |
| 11 | Go and sit up at the table erm Christopher . |
| 12 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 13 | We now retrace our steps to Ponta do Sol and back up onto the road and continue along to Canhas . |
| 14 | We carried a medical team with vehicles and back up for the medical team . |
| 15 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 16 | According to Virginia Cowles , he dropped with Lewes 's party , but others say that he was left at Kabrit as a result of injuries during training and met up with the survivors later . |
| 17 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 18 | and read up to the summer |
| 19 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 20 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 21 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 22 | ‘ And land up in the same condition as you did ? |
| 23 | ‘ I tried so hard , you see , to give him extra attention — extra love — to try and make up for the loss of Maman . |
| 24 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
| 25 | If I do not believe that caves hold the key to the future in ecology and evolution , I am certainly grateful that David Culver and his fellow biospeleologists continue to descend into those dangerous caves and bring up to the light so many biological discoveries . |
| 26 | Pour over the dry cider and water and bring up to the boil . |
| 27 | And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there . |
| 28 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 29 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 30 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |