Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 2 | Blood-sugar level goes up on the digestion of food . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 6 | A high concentration builds up in the fish which are a staple part of the Cree and Inuit 's diet . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the chlorine builds up in the stratosphere , and the ‘ hole ’ over the Antarctic continues to grow . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But Northern Ireland manager Billy Bingham , who has ignored Rogan for 13 months , has insisted the in-form defender links up with the squad as soon as possible . |
| 10 | ‘ They know that if they lose this one , then a gap opens up at the top . |
| 11 | The spectre of warfare fought through the mind looms up before the Doctor and his friends as they swap the bright illumination of the TARDIS for the dark , claustrophobic interior of an orbiting space rocket . |
| 12 | Most of that chlorine gets up into the atmosphere because of our activities , particularly our use of CFCs ( chlorofluorocarbons ) , and other chlorine-based gases . |
| 13 | Landmark rises up from the ashes |
| 14 | This chapter picks up on the development of the FAOR methodology , examining the concluding phase where all the main components , including the SSM , were tested in the field as a final trial of the package as a whole . |
| 15 | That 's , that 's where the nerve comes up near the skin . |
| 16 | Then there 's the question of whether an extra club comes up from the Vauxhall Conference to replace Aldershot and the possibility of clubs moving to new grounds . ’ |
| 17 | Since Intersolv reckons that maintenance accounts for some half of all programming work in MVS sites , and says that the research makes up for the bulk of this work , the potential time savings for users and the potential market for Intersolv are substantial . |
| 18 | Researchers also wanted to discover how much viewers ' attitudes are affected by the context in which a sexy scene turns up on the home screen — and the timing . |
| 19 | A shout of laughter goes up from the room . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | On such a night as this , he told himself , one could believe in ghosts and phantoms , and yet this small , fragile old lady climbs up into the whistling darkness unafraid . |
| 22 | Evidence suggests it is generally best to tell early ( even while the adoptee is still a baby ) so the child grows up with the knowledge ; it also removes the risk of someone else telling the child . |
| 23 | An imposing wooden staircase and gallery leads up to the suites which have a bedroom and a sitting area or sitting room , a bathroom , TV and telephone . |
| 24 | In an earthen-floor restaurant a young girl reaches up to the hatch to bring bowls of strongly coriander-flavoured potato soup to a rickety trestle table . |
| 25 | The hundred shares index closed down.The pound is down againsthe dollar ands up against the mark . |
| 26 | The hundred shares index closed down.The pound is down againsthe dollar ands up against the mark . |
| 27 | The glow fills the sky from the east until the edge of the sun lifts up above the edge of the ocean . |
| 28 | Later in April Arctic skuas will arrive as the kittiwake population builds up near the shores , back from their pelagic winter wanderings , and timing their return to coincide with the arrival of shoals of immature fish which swarm in the surface layers of the sea . |
| 29 | This time the ascension does not bring down the curtain on the life of Jesus ; instead , the curtain goes up on the life of the Church . |
| 30 | During the night and for several hours after dawn the summit remains clearly visible , but as the plain warms up in the morning sun , the hot air rises and becomes vapour at a given height . |