Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A door crashed somewhere up beyond a curtain wall , and the voices of women carried like a peal of bells — melodious , chiming upon one another — into the well of the gallery immediately above . |
| 2 | The last few patients , mainly elderly , have now been moved to other hospitals and today staff were sadly clearly up after a farewell party , three and a half years after the research ward opened . |
| 3 | She led a battle to keep local nursery schools open ( and won ) , campaigned for a skateboarding bowl for neighbourhood children ( now up for a community award ) and produced a Parents ' Guide to Oxford Pubs . |
| 4 | Then a submersible pump , concealed in a sump , conveys it back up to a blockwork filter filled with Canterbury spar . |
| 5 | Gazzer pushed himself wearily back up to a sitting position . |
| 6 | But he said they went back up after a picture request from the Bootle Times , and were not removed again till the next day . |
| 7 | Put it instead at the back of a base cabinet or high up on a wall cabinet , or in the space , if there is one , between wall cabinets and ceiling which you can always turn into a second tier of cabinets by adding fronts to match your other units . |
| 8 | The young woman on night shift high up in a tower block near Lambeth Bridge yawned . |
| 9 | He chose a stance high up in a plane tree where he knew that if they tried climbing he would see them long before they reached him . |
| 10 | Although different , I wanted to capture something of the sensation of being high up in a tenement block overlooking London . |