Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ? |
| 2 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 3 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 4 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 5 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 6 | He stands up with the assistance of the therapist : he may do his trousers up while the therapist makes sure he remains properly aligned and upright , or the therapist may fasten the trousers while the patient concentrates on standing and balancing . |
| 7 | First one child sidles up to the teacher with some trinket to show in order to allow the warm , cheerful voice of teacher questioning and encouraging to wash over the beginning of their school day ; then another , more venturesome , rushes into the teacher 's arms , with breathless news to convey ; and finally a third arrives preoccupied with the task in hand and refers inadvertently to teacher as ‘ mum ’ . |
| 8 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 9 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 10 | Fortunately , Leinster 's front five , which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald , looks up to the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks . |
| 11 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |
| 12 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 13 | The Pyramids , the Valley of the Kings , the towering columns of the ancient temple at Karnak , the lush valley of the Upper Nile where a felucca ( traditional sailing boat ) ride is one of the most peaceful experiences imaginable … it all adds up to the holiday of a lifetime . |
| 14 | It is like a man who storms up to the top of a great mountain and then just drops down . |
| 15 | At the end of the book of Deuteronomy Moses climbs up to the summit of Mount Nebo ‘ which is opposite Jericho ’ ( Deut. |
| 16 | POPPET GREEN , in whose studio Basil Seal wakes up at the beginning of Evelyn Waugh 's Put Out More Flags , was , we learn , a remarkably silly girl . |
| 17 | South Africa wakes up to the threat of AIDS |
| 18 | Although , for the man who checks up on the standard of Britain 's prisons , there 's still some way to go . |
| 19 | He warms up with the march-past of the Brigade of Guards , before wheeling out his spitfire , moving on to jet fighters and finishing , if he 's in a good mood , with dogfights and acrobatics . |
| 20 | The fact that your copy-writers are so uninformed on this perhaps links up with the lack of information the manufacturers have on the need for their product . |
| 21 | The country park includes an historic Iron Age camp and extensive walks , one of which links up with the walk along the Grand Union Canal via Green Lane . |
| 22 | The need for confidentiality means that even he — a man who likes to tell it how it really is — clams up about the twilight of his career . |
| 23 | The special significance of this number is that a similar long-term cyclic pattern shows up in the record of the changing number of sunspots , modulating the stronger 11 year rhythm . |
| 24 | Sometimes it shows up in the application of particularly conventional designs to these subjects . |
| 25 | In many pregnant women , this shows up in the form of food aversions — a strong dislike for dishes or drinks previously enjoyed . |
| 26 | He ends up with the non-voice of Mark Knopfler but given that gentleman 's sales figures ( Dire Straits ' Brothers In Arms was the UK 's best-selling album of the 1980s ) Geldof will hardly complain about the comparison . |
| 27 | Only about 20 per cent of the carbon in the coal ends up in the gas in either process , so carbonisation is not an efficient method for producing a carbon-based gas from coal . |
| 28 | He went out and took the path that leads up over the ridge to the ferry . |
| 29 | Accordingly , as he leads up to the day of Pentecost , Luke is at greatest pains to maintain that the Spirit , who equipped Jesus for his mission , equips the disciples to carry it on . |
| 30 | A curving drive amongst trees leads up to the side of the lake and continues thence along the edge of the water in beautiful surroundings richly endowed with lovely trees planted by the Farrers in the days long ago when woodlands were intended for ornamental display and were allowed to develop to full maturity with no thought of slaughtering them for profit . |