Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere . |
| 2 | When nature has provided you with a highly efficient set of incisors capable of cutting down more than 100 trees in one season , and an overriding instinct to build complex dams up to 4,000 ft. long and 12 ft. high , you can regard yourself as one of her senior architects and master builders . |
| 3 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |
| 4 | Hence errors at a variety of levels ( from the interchanging of elements of adjacent words up to the abandoning of whole sentences ) are inevitable . |
| 5 | *****900 WORDS UP TO THIS POINT — THE 300 BELOW CAN BE DISCARDED IF NECESSARY |
| 6 | Similarly , while a pupil with this type of visual condition might be able to read words up on the blackboard with little difficulty , locating the words themselves could be an initial problem . |
| 7 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 8 | Look these words up in the Oxford English Dictionary ( complete version , not the compact or shorter version ) ; in Brewer 's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature ; in the Encyclopedia Brittanica ; and in whichever other relevant reference sources are available to you . |
| 9 | I , at seventeen , heard the heaviness in his lungs as he sighed , the heaviness in his voice as he fetched those few reluctant words up from the depths inside himself . |
| 10 | He could see Everett 's trips up to London , in the days before the electrification of the Wimbledon Railway . |
| 11 | I remember that when I had my first Meccano set , Dad made a simple hoist which was clamped to the table , a pulley was fixed to a hook above the mirror and my Teddy Bear used to go on trips up to the ceiling . |
| 12 | Three trips up to London . |
| 13 | She was most likely going to fix up about someone shutting the hens up for her instead of him , going to see the other boy . |
| 14 | He was out , but his mother says she 'll tell him , and that he will shut the hens up for me when I have to go out to visit my friend . |
| 15 | And minced the hens up with the blocks . |
| 16 | In the concert-hall , this performance would earn deserved applause , but I 'm not sure that is stands up to the scrutiny that a recording invites . |
| 17 | Woodcuts can be mounted with type , because what is to print black stands up from the surface ; so it was easy to put pictures on the same page as descriptions , and herbals and bestiaries were liberally illustrated . |
| 18 | Richie Lowell glanced up as they came into his office and then pushed his spectacles up into his greying hair . |
| 19 | He stared briefly and then became one enormous grin , pushing his spectacles up on his rubbery nose . |
| 20 | Clare took snacks up to her — poached eggs , milky drinks — thinking she was probably exhausted by the change , and needed a couple of days in bed to recover . |
| 21 | At Everton today , Maddison squares up to Barry Horne , who left Saints in a £750,000 deal last summer . |
| 22 | COLIN McMILLAN ( left ) squares up to tonight 's opponent Ruben Palacio , whom Mac must deal with before he worries about Paul Hodkinson |
| 23 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 24 | For the centuries up to the Tudor times the main instrument of local government outside the boroughs was the manor court , and the best introduction to the whole subject remains Life on the English Manor by H.S. Bennett . |
| 25 | From then on cylinders were usually made of iron , and much more powerful Newcomen engines were eventually built with cylinders up to 6 ft in diameter . |
| 26 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 27 | As he did so , still lying there with his legs up on the chair he 'd fallen over , he started to over-balance to one side , towards Fergus . |
| 28 | Legs up on the side , Doug looks like he is in childbirth . |
| 29 | Yeah , tell you what he does , he gets his back legs up on top of the wall and he does it on top . |
| 30 | Lloyd picked up a beer can , lifted Beeby 's legs up with one hand , sat down on the sofa and let her legs fall across his lap . |