Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , at seventeen , heard the heaviness in his lungs as he sighed , the heaviness in his voice as he fetched those few reluctant words up from the depths inside himself . |
| 2 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |
| 3 | ‘ Thirteen thousand feet up on the shores of Lake Titicaca . |
| 4 | Once you 've got the orientation right carefully line the pins of the chips up with the holes in the socket . |
| 5 | In the words of the vice-president of the Associated Banks of Belgrade ( EP , 24 February 1986 ) , ‘ We have shut our banks up within the boundaries of the republics and provinces , and each bank finances the projects of its own members . ’ |
| 6 | When they were close enough they threw the ropes up to the men at the front of the crowd , and all of them pushed from behind . |
| 7 | The gag was across the trooper 's mouth , and the pressure of Colt 's knee was into the small of his back , and the sheer strength of Colt 's arm took the trooper 's wrists up into the blades of his shoulders . |
| 8 | Now when you go through most of the things that you will see you can touch , but there are things up on the shelves at the sides and we put them there for special reasons , usually cos they 're very heavy or cos they might break easily . |
| 9 | It must line its stripes up with the lines of the bark if it is to be camouflaged . |
| 10 | There was coppa , made from the muscular part of the pig 's neck where it meets the shoulder , and prosciutto , Parma ham , which comes from the same part of the pig as English gammon , and is cured in specially air-cooled rooms up in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma . |
| 11 | Below us rows of lads have put their winklepickers up on the backs of the seats , their feet crossed at the ankles , perching like a flock of shiny blackbirds with pointed wings . |
| 12 | He ran both hands up into the roots of her hair , which she happened to be wearing down , and tried to plant a kiss on her forehead . |
| 13 | Both regions are famous for seafood , which we both love , and there appeared to be a reasonable number of airfields dotted about , ranging from little fields up in the mountains to Porto , one of Portugal 's only three Customs airports — the others are Lisbon and Faro . |
| 14 | The next day , on our arrival back at the hospital , there were bars up on the sides of Nigel 's bed . |
| 15 | It was a particular damp Autumn , before the advent of land drainage at Strawberry Fields and the snapshot albums shows us ( with all the children again ) wellies up to the knees in mud , lifting the teethes out of the quagmire with forks ! |
| 16 | Rockhoppers nearly always nest in colonies up on the tops of cliffs , sometimes 30 metres above the sea , which , on the face of it , seems a daft place for a bird which can not fly ! |
| 17 | The same problem of faith that sees God as too small shows up in the attitudes of those who approached Jesus for help . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , tigers once roamed over most of Asia , some trekked over the frozen north , others up into the mountains of Central Asia and more through the hot humid rain forests of the south . |