Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
| 2 | At a corner table , three men and an ample woman in an apron played cards noisily , the slap of the cards punctuated by bursts of virtuoso coughing , that cavernous café cough which echoes up from the boots . |
| 3 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 4 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 5 | The story-line and the characters may seem incredible — like beautiful Remedios who floats up into the heavens while folding the household sheets and is never seen again — but Marquez defies you to disbelieve in them . |
| 6 | Manners , above all , should be about behaving the same way to everyone you meet ; a person who sucks up to the nobs and snubs those he regards as his ‘ inferiors ’ is manifestly not a gent . |
| 7 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 8 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 9 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 10 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 11 | It surges up into the grounds of the fabled castle , into the cold and weary magic of Schloss Hartheim . |
| 12 | From the smoothness of the velocity field within the filaments and the way in which it matches up with the velocities of neighbouring clouds , one infers that the arms are probably gas streams tidally stretched out as they fall towards the bottom of the galactic potential . |
| 13 | If Kim does as I wish — if he comes up with the answers I want — then I will tear up this document . |