Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 2 | So we see that if you have a school that goes up to the ninth grade , the Ministry covers the costs up to the sixth grade but the other years are paid for by parents . |
| 3 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
| 4 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 5 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 6 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 7 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 8 | The tutorial supplied is excellent and more than makes up for the formal style of the manuals . |
| 9 | But the interesting people she meets more than makes up for the bad ones . |
| 10 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 11 | This is positive and increases up to the next ex dividend date , at which point the dirty price falls by the present value of the amount of the coupon payment . |
| 12 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 13 | ‘ The larva of hookworm enters through your skin , usually the sole of your foot , and travels up through the lymphatic system , then going through into your lungs . |
| 14 | The road for the tunnel here bears off to the left and rises up along the glorious valley of Aragnouet , half pasture , half pine woods , past a road leading off to another new ski station , at Piau-Engaly . |
| 15 | She was n't sure how she 'd got there : like someone who takes an electric shock from a kitchen implement and winds up on the other side of the room . |
| 16 | Under the stairs as leads up inside the White Tower , Black Will told us . |