Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent bunched his knees up as a fulcrum and as the man hit them , grasped the big man 's trousers at the waist , heaving for his life . |
| 2 | Discussions have taken place with the Shropshire County Council Leisure Services Department with regard to the setting up of a Museum and they have given much helpful advice including a visit to the proposed building . |
| 3 | If the PNC Declaration of Independence constituted a major landmark in this process , the time has come to embark on another major step , that of declaring the setting up of a state or government structure . |
| 4 | However , I was not willing to order the setting up of a court-martial before I had heard your version of what took place that morning . |
| 5 | Well usually cos I got my feet up on a bench and I ca n't reach keyboard so |
| 6 | This last great problem features an unprotected crux 30 feet up with a landing that would keep the local casualty department busy for some considerable time . |
| 7 | Amaranth had no wish to be caught napping in the lounge of the Grand Hotel ; how much better to return to ‘ Mon Repos ’ and put her feet up for an hour or so . |
| 8 | Tony Clement , full-back for the most talented Swansea side in years , lines up behind a threequarter-line that includes England new-boys Ian Hunter and Tony Underwood on the wings . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work . |
| 10 | The good news is that he will not be rushed off to stud afterwards and will campaign for further honours next year when a move up to a mile and a quarter might be considered . |
| 11 | It extends in places up to a metre or so above the level of the reef flat due to the fact that Porolithon can survive in the splash and spray zone and does not need long periods of immersion . |
| 12 | Sort of fix a room up as a theatre and bring the , some nursing staff in . |
| 13 | Building up to a boundary and the likely effect this may have on your neighbour could very well be one of these issues . |
| 14 | The Arts : Building up to a fiesta or siesta ? |
| 15 | The next extension from such situations to increase the realism is to show arousing situations in a naturally occurring context , for example by showing the build up to a crime or road accident . |
| 16 | I wanted to wear my hair up in a knot but Elise said you 'd prefer it loose like this . ’ |
| 17 | One of the colleges he listed invited Katrina up for an interview and she seemed to like it there . |
| 18 | He said OK rewrite them , so I held things up for an hour and at the end of it he said he was n't convinced . |
| 19 | Dear God , they 'll pick their things up in a minute and leave me on my tod with that Peaseblossom . |
| 20 | That 's right , most people with epilepsy they 're much better if they go to sleep and you do n't wake them up , if you wake the person up from a sleep that 's just had an epileptic fit they 'll be vomiting , but if you let them sleep through it then erm , then they 're usually fine . |
| 21 | FAR LEFT Always try to walk on the street with the dog up against a fence or wall . |
| 22 | Hold up a finger at arm's-length , close one eye , and line your finger up with a picture or some other convenient object some way away . |
| 23 | The Chief Executive , John Sillett , former Trade Finance Director and Corporate Banking Area Manager for the Midland Bank , said that the Group would encroach on accountants ' territory up to a point but claimed to have an ‘ inside track ’ . |
| 24 | The only way to lighten a heavy forehand , which is basically the trouble , is by using a strong leg up to a giving and taking hand , thereby giving a series of strong half-halts . |
| 25 | The wash down would be done with one leg up at a time and an impatient queue waiting behind . |
| 26 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 27 | There were connections there , safe houses where he could hole up for a week or more , while his American friends made arrangements to get him out of the country and into free Europe . |
| 28 | Well in really warm weather a T-shirt and shorts may be enough but as it gets colder so you need to add layers of sweaters , trousers and top the whole thing up with a wind and waterproof spray suit but all that can make you a little clumsy , so the answer for most British sailors is a wetsuit like the ones that you and Suzanne are wearing . |
| 29 | The others , including the new drummer , had come to pick Keith up for a practice while I was there . |
| 30 | Continuing down the and P and L account the erm tax charge , you 've seen a note in the erm preliminary results present erm handout is not in fact up as a percentage if you look at the operating er if you look at it in operating terms , there was a tax credit in in extraordinaries last year this therefore had reduced the nineteen ninety one tax charge comparatively , strip it out and tax chargee share was around twenty nine percent . |