Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one lives up here in the cleft of the White Kielder Burn . |
| 2 | In fact , today 's activities had offered some hours of reprieve from thoughts of him — at least until such time as they were due to meet up later in the afternoon . |
| 3 | The rugged mountains rose up straight from the river banks and were shaded in greens and browns with gashes of copper where erosion has taken its toll . |
| 4 | Wild brown hills of heather and bracken rose up steeply behind the house , just beyond a red-jewelled fuchsia hedge and a grove of mysterious scrub oaks . |
| 5 | Guido drew up abruptly at the side of the road . |
| 6 | We 'll tie up just beyond the lock , just in front of those other boats . ’ |
| 7 | This does not tie up entirely with the records of Hal Far , which noted that three Fulmars went up , and that one was damaged and the pilot slightly wounded . |
| 8 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 9 | If she did n't get some decent sleep soon , she 'd be in severe danger of cracking up completely under the strain . |
| 10 | And he moved up here after the war , World War One . |
| 11 | Every time Jim tried to pass the Ford moved up close to the Renault 's rear bumper , or rather the towbar protruding from it , and Jim was forced to ease back again . |
| 12 | Something come up there onto the brink of the gulf , |
| 13 | Much of the mercury that escapes in to the soil and the air and in to the water , finishes up here in the rivers , and there it reacts with naturally occurring compounds to form a compound called methyl mercury which is far more dangerous to man than is mercury itself . |
| 14 | A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic . |
| 15 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 16 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 17 | And the suggestion to this Committee was that it looked , that it looked further at the five hundred thousand pounds guideline that 's been set to address the apparent shortfall on community care funding , and also that you should look at further service reductions and their implications erm , of reductions of a further two hundred and fifty thousand , and those are again picked up later in the paper . |
| 18 | It is perhaps interesting to note that Baines in his History of Lancashire tells us that there are no mines at work in this Parish , nor any minerals found , except some fine specimens of copper ore which are picked up occasionally near the brooks in Rusland ! |
| 19 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 20 | ‘ If you do n't want to come up there with the bases loaded , hang ‘ em up . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you got any food ? ’ said Adam hoarsely , hunching up sideways in the driver 's seat . |
| 22 | The benefits you gain can increase each year in the form of these bonuses , which build up annually from the investment of your premiums in the Guardian Life Fund . |
| 23 | The excess sail is rolled up neatly around the mast out of the way and still I 've good a good sail shape . |
| 24 | He was shaking hands now with the woman , who was the exact antithesis of her niece , being thin and bony ; even her arms , showing bare where she had her sleeves rolled up almost to the armpits , looked fleshless . |
| 25 | This means tilting the rear mortise to line up with the front leg , which will mean in turn that the side rail will not line up exactly with the back leg . |
| 26 | Berwick was a slantwise town , sloping up northwards from the harbour area , its outer walls halfway up to the castle . |
| 27 | It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to hide up further along the road towards Maidenhead , and then to descend upon the unfortunate post-boy . |
| 28 | See since Derek went up to work up there on the Rigs things have been Different . |
| 29 | With David Sims off injured , Gloucester 's supply of ball dried up late in the game and they were also playing into the cold wind . |
| 30 | He had been born in Tucupita and had grown up there in the region of Venezuela where the great Paraqua river met the Orinoco and flowed into the Delta of the Orinoco where the sea moved on to Trinidad . |