Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he shot his legs up into the sky and slid down without a splash . |
| 2 | What is wrong , what is wrong with increasing the levels of education in our schools up to the quality and level of education offered by the C T C ? |
| 3 | I climbed the steps up onto the lock and knocked on the door of the lock-keeper 's house , and through great good fortune found him at home . |
| 4 | But Mr Tomlinson built his own bonnet , mudguards and steps up to the cab and set in louvred vents either side of the bonnet to let out the heat produced by the massive engine . |
| 5 | Trent bunched his knees up as a fulcrum and as the man hit them , grasped the big man 's trousers at the waist , heaving for his life . |
| 6 | She was wandering about the room , pulling the covers up on the bed and tidying up half-heartedly , waiting for the kettle on the gas-ring to boil . |
| 7 | It is a quiet and comfortable village to stop in , as I know from having stopped there , with good walks up into the hills and good fishing — for trout , which begin to come into their own around here as the mountain fish . |
| 8 | In both Byzantium and Islam the surface enrichment , though opposed in motivation and manner , draws the eyes up to the arches and the vaulting . |
| 9 | Well usually cos I got my feet up on a bench and I ca n't reach keyboard so |
| 10 | Venture capitalists like to keep close tabs on their investments , going down to the offices of the fledging chief executive officers once a week , putting their feet up on the desk and playing father confessor . |
| 11 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 12 | Brown started to giggle to himself , put his feet up on the sofa and waited for the images and feelings to take possession of him . |
| 13 | Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes . |
| 14 | Tamsin puts her feet up on the table and asks why not . |
| 15 | Amaranth had no wish to be caught napping in the lounge of the Grand Hotel ; how much better to return to ‘ Mon Repos ’ and put her feet up for an hour or so . |
| 16 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |
| 17 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |
| 18 | Some boys were bringing battered wooden buckets up from the well and the occasional housewife emptied the slops from the night jars out into the middle of the street . |
| 19 | they came down with a lot o little bottles and they filled all them bottles up with the mud and they took 'em away and anal analyzed 'em and proved that it was erm human manure you see . |
| 20 | ‘ There were megastars up for the part but old Wallace here got it . |
| 21 | You should always , for example , try to make sure that at least the text in the columns lines up across the page-headings and sub-headings may well not but the text really should . |
| 22 | ( Wringing her apron in mock indignation ) That 's the third time this week I 've picked his Good polyester-dacron trousers up off the floor and Hung them up in their crease . |
| 23 | It extends in places up to a metre or so above the level of the reef flat due to the fact that Porolithon can survive in the splash and spray zone and does not need long periods of immersion . |
| 24 | Many pool owners pull plants up by the handful and then wonder why the water turns green . |
| 25 | And apparently these other lads further down , to the tune of about a hundred and fifty yards , had all lifted the boards up on the belt and so all their slack and that was coming to me . |
| 26 | Put his broad thumbs up under the lid and pushed . |
| 27 | Normally when you start water-skiing , you are lying in the water with your skis up in the air and the boat goes slowly away and you slowly come up , but this was like being catapulted into the water . |
| 28 | I 'm stood at the tee throwing the clubs up in the air and whooping away and he just turns to me and says , ‘ Do n't get too excited , Jacky . |
| 29 | He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations . |
| 30 | He said OK rewrite them , so I held things up for an hour and at the end of it he said he was n't convinced . |