Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 2 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 3 | But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self . |
| 4 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 5 | ‘ Damn cheek , ’ he muttered , and hitched himself up onto the edge of the couch . |
| 6 | He worked himself up into the kind of rage that leads to unforgivable things being said . |
| 7 | The dapper , 52-year-old economist with his trademark owlish glasses had set himself up as a beacon of the reform movement as long ago as April 1991 when he led his party out of government . |
| 8 | He sets himself up as the Father of the British Industry yet he does n't deliver the goods . |
| 9 | Then they watched him pull himself up from the support of the couch and , keeping his eyes on Emma until he had passed her , he strode from the room . |
| 10 | Mr Mullings heaved himself up by the back of the bench for a better look . |
| 11 | When he rose from his knees , helping himself up by the rim of her altar , newly draped in celebration of her return , and expectation of her continued residence , he did not at once leave her . |
| 12 | And if you look at the bottom of that table , somebody up to the age of thirty nine , will pay two percent of their premium erm , for the waiver of premium benefit . |
| 13 | The ascent on to the ridge evolves in easy stages , taking you up over a number of small , craggy knolls until you reach the commodious upper slopes of the Munro . |
| 14 | ‘ It was Faye , dear , silly Faye , with her ridiculous attempt to doll you up into the sort of woman she thought I 'd want . |
| 15 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 16 | Just turn right up there and it takes you up to the bottom of the M10 . |
| 17 | If there is anything capable of lifting you up to the gates of heaven , then that is it . |
| 18 | ‘ If you do , ’ he said softly , leaning towards her , ‘ we 'll slice you up like a joint of meat . ’ |
| 19 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 20 | I fear that our nation has set itself up for a decade of national strife . |
| 21 | So a violent kind of self-accelerating process would take place , with the magma rapidly blowing itself up into a froth of gas and liquid rock and blasting itself clear out of the vent . |
| 22 | The modern obsession with the tube — that evanescent twist of the wave as it curls itself up into the form of a vagina to lure in unwary youths like bees into the mouths of flowers — perpetuates the equation of surfing and sex . |
| 23 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 24 | We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God ’ ( 2 Corinthians 10:4–5 ) . |
| 25 | In 198l there was a government White Paper entitled New Training Initiatives which set out the aims of these schemes : to develop skill-training , to provide further education or work-related training for everyone up to the age of 18 , and to offer adults the chance to update their skills . |
| 26 | When I started feeding them I built them up to a wedge of ‘ Horsehage ’ each — which they love . |
| 27 | The young , untrained dog must have chased them up to the edge of the pit , where they fell to their death . |
| 28 | They hit many patches of soft sand and wasted hours unloading vehicles , shoving them up to the top of dunes and reloading again . |
| 29 | The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he walked them up to the top of the hill and back again . |
| 30 | The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again . |