Example sentences of "and [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | and read up to the summer |
| 14 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 17 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 18 | Another day dawned and the mists from the river swirled and eddied round the banks and crept up to the house the Hanging Judge had built . |
| 19 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 20 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 21 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 22 | Marie pushed back her coffee and got up from the table . |
| 23 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 24 | She finished her drink and got up from the table . |
| 25 | He shook his head and got up from the table , taking his plate to the sink to rinse it . |
| 26 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 27 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 28 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 29 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 30 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |