Example sentences of "up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 2 | Jumping up off a seat is easy enough because almost any action will make things better . |
| 3 | The major agreements are drawn up between a small number of tightly-controlled organisations and the outcome of their central negotiations sets guidelines and limits to the industry-wide negotiations which then subsequently take place . |
| 4 | Most prison reformers , including Howard , have emphasized that any rehabilitative effect which prison may have will derive primarily from the quality of the relationship built up between a respected member of staff and an individual prisoner . |
| 5 | ‘ Because , ’ said Damian Flint , ‘ when antagonism springs up between a man and a woman , it 's really just a fight for supremacy . |
| 6 | Old : Take the steep path leading up through a re-plantation scheme until it is possible to exit from its left-hand top corner to gain steep scree . |
| 7 | ‘ I found a good place on the bus , on the top deck , right at the front , where you can feel the warmth coming up through a grating ’ ( here and there a head nodded understandingly ) ‘ and see the view . |
| 8 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 9 | Built-in furniture is also worth consideration at an early stage , as there will be a strict limit on what can be brought up through a loft hatch or new stairway . |
| 10 | From here you can either continue by cable car to the summit at 9,679 feet and enjoy the panoramic views from the restaurant , or you can walk up through a half-mile tunnel ( with viewing windows at intervals ) to the Schneefernehaus . |
| 11 | Thus , in his chapter ‘ The Elimination of Metaphysics ’ , Ayer cites a number of philosophical problems which he believes can be rapidly cleared up through a proper understanding of language . |
| 12 | We climbed onto it , put our arms into the shaft of sunlight , grasped the upper edges of the hole and , one by one , hauled ourselves up through a manhole into another street . |
| 13 | She occupied a tiny apartment hidden away beneath Betty 's house , and she had a habit of materializing unexpectedly as if she 'd sprung up through a trapdoor . |
| 14 | At Leipzig , Betty Israel saw a baby handed up through a carriage window . |
| 15 | On one occasion a broken length of broom handle found its way up through a perfectly innocent household accident and remained undetected until the housemaid in question went to her doctor with curious vaginal discharge . |
| 16 | She was lying on the carpet , the lips of her cunt , soft and blunt , pushing up through a mound of black curls . |
| 17 | Cover : pulling up through a steady 4g loop in Harry Prew-Smith 's Fouga Magister . |
| 18 | Stay in this position for some time , then slowly sit up through a curved spine — a great way to relax ! |
| 19 | In one single movement , raise both the torso and the legs — up through a curved spine to a sitting position , grasping the ankles . |
| 20 | The sour smell from the communal rubbish bins in the alley below drifted up through a broken window and Carrie grimaced as she knocked on the door . |
| 21 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 22 | Spread out below them were Dingle Harbour and Ventry Bay , and to the west , beyond the sheer cliff of Slea Head , the Blasket Islands poked their treacherous black rocks up through a calm Atlantic . |
| 23 | So a boy coming up through a family that was involved in riveters would sort of more or less |
| 24 | They climbed , passing up through a zebra-crossing kaleidoscope of dark and light . |
| 25 | In the opening section of the pageant , Mahmud , lying underneath the stage , was due to poke a flag decorated with a crescent moon up through a crack in the stage . |
| 26 | It gets them up through a business meeting and brings them back down to earth when the crisis is passed . |
| 27 | Set up through a partnership between the NHS and private industry , the centre cost half a million pounds to build and can care for fifty patients . |
| 28 | Yet , like so many others brought up through an older tradition , I was only indirectly aware of their nature , or even of their existence . |
| 29 | The net swept them up through an oblong portal faced with irregular , soapy-looking tiles , into a concourse bathed in harsh amber light . |
| 30 | In operation it is similar to the normal type of tap : the water flows up through an orifice which can be closed by a jumper with a washer screwed down on to it . |