Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are not may choose the more attractive route , going north to Koblenz , turning right to follow the Rhine , turning left about 8km ( 5 miles ) after Kaiserstuhl to pick up the same road through Jestetten . |
| 2 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 3 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 4 | The Act of Union stirred up the latent nationalism even of non-Jacobite Scots . |
| 5 | ‘ And this heap of fur taking up the warmest spot is Blue . |
| 6 | Lastly , there are a number of differences between groups of institutions making up the monetary sector . |
| 7 | A sudden explosion of brightness lit up the whole sky . |
| 8 | Er you need to have a much more all round variety of exercise to build up the different things . |
| 9 | He makes the point that the arrival of these southerners ( and westerners ) has enabled the University of Ulster to push up the minimum entry grades for some courses . |
| 10 | In the case of Dataease setting up the initial forms is easy , even quite complex forms with many relationships can be set up very quickly . |
| 11 | Compare two recollections : Delicate motes of movement tiptoeing up the curving sabre-slash of Serenity Crack in Yosemite . |
| 12 | Somehow at the sight of him all her anger seemed to vanish like the wisps of smoke wreathing up the great chimney near by . |
| 13 | However , as the busloads of pilgrims trudged up the muddy paths to the whispered prayers ( ’ Our Lady of Ballinspittle sway for us ’ ) of the local inn keepers , the Bishop of Cork gave a lukewarm endorsement to the extent that it WIS no bad thing to see people praying . |
| 14 | In view of that stated aim , I was surprised to find no mention of Sherwood Idso 's claims that all of the fuss is a result of climatologists barking up the wrong tree , misled by computer models which are all making the same mistake . |
| 15 | Mind you 're still got , still getting a lot of heat going up the old chimney are n't you ? |
| 16 | When the dashing Cigognes arrived they pounced with glee on the dispersed German planes flying up and down in the ‘ barrage ’ , tearing through it with impunity to shoot up the Drachen balloons , the vital eyes of the German artillery . |
| 17 | Ecstatically , with enthusiasm and with people picking up the steely determination , that we 've all got to work with every energy to make sure that we win the General Election , as simple as that . |
| 18 | Well , undergraduates getting very , very drunk and , you know , throwing up and leaving pools of vomit around for staff to clear up the next day erm , you know , one might say well are the college staff the victim of that . |
| 19 | Bomb disposal teams from Hereford blew up the buried horde in a series of controlled explosions throughout the day . |
| 20 | Becky , of Shanklin , on the Isle of Wight , will need at least one more operation in January to cover up the remaining bald patches on her head . |
| 21 | It was hot , and everyone was very cross by the time Tim Peacock from Broxtowe summed up the general consensus : ‘ We 've been stuffed , ’ writes John Pienaar . |
| 22 | Countless times , before Longines took up the electronic timing of practice , Ferrari had managed to surprise every one else 's chronometers with their ‘ times ’ : they had a rabid press and rabid fans behind them and the Monza authorities , besides being among the least efficient on the circuit , were also the most pliant . |
| 23 | The Lima to Huancayo train in Peru reversing up the next section of the highest railway in the world . |
| 24 | King Edward 's unpopularity was not enhanced by close relatives being created Earls , so Isabella went to Paris in 1325 to consult with her brother , by then King of France , and with the help of the Earl of March , troops were sent from France to round up the royal favourites for execution , and to depose and imprison Edward II , who was murdered by one of the Earl of March 's agents in September 1327 . |
| 25 | These are powerful controls , and Hartke recommend using them first in order to set up the initial sound . |
| 26 | Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy . |
| 27 | In order to seep up the fetid atmosphere of the New York streets , a hidden camera was used to track Dustin 's peregrinations . |
| 28 | We 're checking on every person who spent the night under this roof , in order to build up the fullest picture of events . |
| 29 | The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry . |
| 30 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |