Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 2 | The plain-clothed cockney sidles up to the moustached man , grinning . |
| 3 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
| 4 | The top end finishes up with the three-over-two layout of Gotoh black chrome machines . |
| 5 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 6 | Carmichael glances up at the grubby banner , and he shrugs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | EAST END gangster Harry Shand ( terrific , tough-talking turn by Bob Hoskins ) wakes up to the new age and discovers the IRA muscling in on his turf . |
| 9 | The highway , which links up with the old road south of Charikar , avoids mujahedin territory and and passes through a region where the Kabul regime has concluded deals with local guerrilla commanders . |
| 10 | The confidential reports , leaked by the unions , were compiled by 15 internal ‘ taskforces ’ charged with considering the BBC 's prospects as it gears up for the public debate over renewing its royal charter in 1996 . |
| 11 | " Ham " acting shows up in the slightest twitch of an eyebrow . |
| 12 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 13 | A huge row blows up over the trumpeted transference of ‘ Guernica ’ from the Prado ( see p. 19 ) . |
| 14 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
| 15 | They occasional quack of ‘ Alright mate ? ’ floats up from the down gully . |
| 16 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 17 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 18 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 19 | So the needle ends up with the original stitch and a loop of yarn on it . |
| 20 | I said I feel sorry for Maggie , I says , cos she always ends up in the bloody middle , I says , and she whittles to death , I says , till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns , I says she 'll be awake nearly all night ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 23 | Under the stairs as leads up inside the White Tower , Black Will told us . |
| 24 | Also included in this ‘ private ’ section of the building is a straight-flight staircase which leads up from the small hall containing the secondary entrance to serve the family 's first-floor sleeping accommodation . |
| 25 | The young hero , John Kemp , grows up with the ardent expectation of rose-coloured , agreeable adventure : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 29 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 30 | 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 . |