Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Angelo also relates the example of corporate America waking up to the belated realisation that what has become known as ‘ the pink economy ’ represents significant purchasing power . |
| 2 | The world 's No. 1 batsman , according to the ratings , was two days into his 40th year , and had once again set his side up for a further victory to help blot out the misery of 1987–89 . |
| 3 | Turn on to a side for the next quarter , then the other side and breast side up for the final cooking time , removing the foil . |
| 4 | One important difference between eurocheques and ordinary cheques is that each eurocheque is guaranteed by your eurocheque card up to the approximate currency equivalent of £100 . |
| 5 | Why I 'm yes that that might be a bit more complicated because that means we 've got to get a thousand a thousand reject up to a thousand reject ball bearings which are all the same . |
| 6 | He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’ |
| 7 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 8 | Dizzily entranced by the yellow novelty , I floated free as wood smoke and fluttered around the noisy house , while my anaesthetised feet padded cement steps up to the front door . |
| 9 | There were two or three granite steps up to the front door which had a grubby ‘ Closed ’ notice hung behind its glass panel ; no bell , and no other door . |
| 10 | Besides , she was ultimately responsible to Liz for the twins ' welfare , Laura firmly reminded herself as they mounted the wide steps up to the front door of Lady Wyndham 's house . |
| 11 | There were six steps up to the tiny stage , Gary would be playing the intro , and with each of the steps Madame would say a woman 's name , fingering one of the rings . |
| 12 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 13 | It 's just the things you poke your hairs up on a sharp stick |
| 14 | A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield . |
| 15 | It also outlined a number of proposals that states might take into account in the drawing up of a global action plan at the February 1990 special session , including , among others : increased public information and education ; the possibility of a UN decade against drugs ; the establishment of a UN capability to provide training and equipment for national anti-drug forces ; relevant measures to prevent the laundering of drug monies and the establishment of a UN facility to gather information on this ; and development and technical assistance programmes aimed at strengthening local economies and legal systems against drugs . |
| 16 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |
| 17 | On Sunday , for the first time since the Gulf war , Iraq flew combat aircraft up to the 36th parallel in violation of UN resolutions . |
| 18 | Ivo drew the car up at the front door , she pinned her hopes , rather desperately , she owned , on one very big , important fact . |
| 19 | Everybody knew the tram drivers and used to hop on the front of the car up to the nearest point of the station and then jump off , and the superintendent was on the car and saw him getting on . |
| 20 | Still smiling with pleasure , he swung the car up round a steep bend . |
| 21 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 22 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 23 | At the moment of extinction , he had held the young man 's mind up like a pierced coconut and let all the thin milk trickle out . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 25 | In sum : heads Fleet/Norstar wins , tails the taxpayer loses , on top of the $2.5 billion ( 10% up from the previous estimate ) that is already down the drain . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’ |
| 27 | In consideration of your agreeing to make an offer , on behalf of our customer , [ client name ] for the whole of the issued share capital of a company known to both of us under the code name [ ] ' , we , [ name of Bank ] London Branch , [ address of Bank ] , hereby guarantee that our customer , [ client name ] have available to them funds up to a total amount of £ [ ] . |
| 28 | In desperation he faked a dive and hauled the SE up on a tight loop . |
| 29 | Villa had their tails up in the second half and Atkinson and Staunton both had chances to increase their lead . |
| 30 | There is also the implication in the model that , if you successfully prevent entry up till the mature stage of the life-cycle , you will then , subject to the price elasticity of demand , be able to increase prices in the way illustrated in figure 5.3 . |