Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 2 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 3 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 4 | Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad . |
| 5 | The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half . |
| 6 | A wounded horse limped in the wheat , trying to catch up with the other cavalry horses . |
| 7 | The spade and the fork they had hung up among the other tools in the stables . |
| 8 | There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man . |
| 9 | Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family . |
| 10 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |
| 11 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 12 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 13 | He imagined them lying close , arms round one another , Annie , perhaps , with her leg drawn up over the other girl 's haunch , and breathing softly on to one another 's faces . |
| 14 | Three year rolling service agreements are to be drawn up for the other directors and senior employees as set out in Appendix II . |
| 15 | The voice belonged to George , he had drawn up on the other side of the road , and as I walked towards him his voice was getting impatient . |
| 16 | The other lamb 's getting tangled up in the other parts of that Russian vine 's gone over . |
| 17 | We can create particles made up of the other quarks ( strange , charmed , bottom , and top ) , but these all have a much greater mass and decay very rapidly into protons and neutrons . |
| 18 | The mood of Bank Holiday reflects that of a nation knowing that war must come , but other films dealt more directly with the storm clouds building up on the other side of the Channel . |
| 19 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 20 | A young wildebeest is able to run almost as soon as it is born , for it must be able to keep up with the other wildebeest when they flee a predator . |
| 21 | His Dad had pulled up on the other side of the road . |
| 22 | The BBC itself , via its Enterprises section , rescued the day by coming up with the other half of a total £450,000 budget . |
| 23 | ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me . |
| 24 | She curled up on the other side of the bed . |
| 25 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 26 | Howls of laughter went up from the other boys . |
| 27 | But then the skull starts to grow in a strange , asymmetrical , twisted fashion , so that one eye , for instance the left , moves over the top of the head to finish up on the other side . |
| 28 | uhum , could n't you go up in the other corner . |
| 29 | Fearing that Greece and Turkey would end up on the other side of that iron curtain the American President Truman declared that their security was vital to the Western powers and began a substantial programme of aid . |
| 30 | The united front put up by the other EC leaders was made possible by the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , who abandoned any attempt to slow down the decision on an inter-governmental conference . |