Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nominated care district judges can : ( a ) transfer cases up to the High Court following transfer from the family proceedings court ; ( b ) consider " appeals " against a justices ' clerk 's refusal to transfer a case ; ( c ) make emergency protection orders in proceedings issued in the county court or transferred up from the family proceedings court ; ( d ) give directions and make uncontested public law orders ; ( e ) make some public law orders in contested cases , eg education supervision orders . |
| 2 | NOW that the worst of winter is about to set in , there 's no better way to while away those long , dark evenings than curled up by the fire with a good book . |
| 3 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 4 | There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries . |
| 5 | In August Chapman signed his former half-back George Hampson from Northampton , and although his previous visit to Northampton had failed to secure Walden — he went to Tottenham in April for £1,750 — the developing form of Bainbridge at outside-right more than made up for the disappointment . |
| 6 | This more than made up for the Tramway Department 's loss of revenue resulting from the suspension of the service ! |
| 7 | Once revved up to the standard , frenetic pitch of activity , one day becomes a limitless bank account with which you can do everything … and anything . |
| 8 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 9 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 10 | Rachaela walked into the area and squeezed up to the chest . |
| 11 | If made up in the form of a roll : 1040mm for the length and twice the diameter combined , and 900mm for the greater dimension . |
| 12 | This vast stocktaking and forward-planning exercise was commissioned by Richard Luce in 1990 , and drawn up with the aid of 44 discussion papers and 3,000 participants . |
| 13 | With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) . |
| 14 | And he went on : ‘ And if we 're at home , we make sure we 've eaten and washed up before the show . ’ |
| 15 | Now , on Saturday morning , she thumped on the cottage door and at the same time leaned back from her ample waist and called up at the casement window . |
| 16 | One of the spoke machines from the Road Vehicle Shop was adapted ; cutter block was quickly made and set up by the tool-room , but two dimensions could not be attained in this process . |
| 17 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 18 | ‘ After all , I was born and brought up in the north of Scotland . |
| 19 | Members of the Korean minority have started to question the exclusivity of a Japan which has denied citizenship and certain basic human rights even to those born and brought up in the country . |
| 20 | Born and brought up in the area , unlike other members of the group who had lived locally for Periods of one to seven years . |
| 21 | ‘ What I mean is , they probably had some sort of … lover 's quarrel , Gebrec went storming out in a rage and charged up to the belvedere to cool off . |
| 22 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 23 | But knowing , as I did , that there was little to return to in England , and buoyed up by the sense of adventure and risk brought on by the thought of joining the Legion , I knew I would be staying . |
| 24 | At last , when all the stalls were full , Lady Amelia gestured to the cantor not to begin the usual psalms and caused a stir when she herself rose and swept up to the lectern . |
| 25 | In operation , the tractor backed and lined up to the trailer , and the two ramps met . |
| 26 | At last the Stones were bundled into the building and taken up onto the roof for the promised interview . |
| 27 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 28 | The trend was started by The Independent , and taken up by The Guardian , more for commercial reasons than as a principled stand . |
| 29 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 30 | Instead , we left the truck conventionally positioned , and headed up through the forest leading to the slopes of the first top , Stob Coire na Ceannain . |