Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dizzily entranced by the yellow novelty , I floated free as wood smoke and fluttered around the noisy house , while my anaesthetised feet padded cement steps up to the front door . |
| 2 | There were two or three granite steps up to the front door which had a grubby ‘ Closed ’ notice hung behind its glass panel ; no bell , and no other door . |
| 3 | Besides , she was ultimately responsible to Liz for the twins ' welfare , Laura firmly reminded herself as they mounted the wide steps up to the front door of Lady Wyndham 's house . |
| 4 | There were six steps up to the tiny stage , Gary would be playing the intro , and with each of the steps Madame would say a woman 's name , fingering one of the rings . |
| 5 | There was the hum of cars up on the main road . |
| 6 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
| 7 | It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it . |
| 8 | Most of the recruits to the senior positions were from within the industry and in the months up to the planned vesting day — 1 April 1948 — most retained their old jobs in the pre-vesting undertakings as well as carrying out their new responsibilities of planning for the change . |
| 9 | He had a finger in several pies as well ( which Moroccan has n't ? ) but he also had a dream — of doing something with visitors up in the unknown peaks above Taroudant . |
| 10 | Miranda , in black linen shorts and halter top , lay with her feet up on the terracotta-coloured sofa , enjoying her idleness . |
| 11 | Kenneth sighed with pretended regret , putting his feet up on the low wall of the terrace and rocking his seat back on its rear legs as he shaded his eyes with one hand . |
| 12 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 13 | In Abbel Mr Justice found it appropriate for the plaintiff quote , to recompense his parents up to the commercial rate for one full time carer , unquote . |
| 14 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 15 | Out in the gulf a tommahawk missile drills up into the ink-black sky fired from the U S battle ship Wisconsin . |
| 16 | A van stood by to take the bottles up to the municipal bottle bank , another for the cans and a red plastic hippopotamus with its mouth wide open waited to receive the litter . |
| 17 | But how this complaint lines up with the alleged conspiracy and fraudulent conduct is not clear to me . |
| 18 | Then turn you map so that the map symbol lines up with the real landmark . |
| 19 | The 29-year-old Blaydon Harrier lines up in the international women 's road mile with Dorovskikh , the Ukranian who took the 3,000 metres title ahead of Yvonne Murray in Tokyo last summer and also finished second in the 1500 metres . |
| 20 | The Windsors will look at the last four monarchs and their families and take a detailed look at their changing fortunes up to the present day . |
| 21 | The one on Display screen equipment work obliges us to carry out an assessment of each workstation ( computer , software suitability , accessories , peripherals , and the immediate working environment , including furniture ) , to ensure that all new workstations meet the criteria , and to bring existing stations up to the required standard . |
| 22 | Honour and Arms by J.F. Huxford ( London 1984 ) is a quite sumptuous book covering augmentations from early , legendary , varieties up to the present century . |
| 23 | The newly enthroned Tsar Nicholas I moved troops up to the Turkish frontier and forced the sultan to sign the Convention of Akkerman ( October 1826 ) , by which the Turks agreed to implement the clauses of the Treaty of Bucharest which recognised the rights of the Romanians and Serbs . |
| 24 | British Rail recently put fares up on the affected routes saying customers had to pay for the vast improvements they 'd made . |
| 25 | Thumbs up to the poor people that had to clean it up . |
| 26 | Buddy 's original band The Crickets gave Alex their thumbs up during the American tour . |
| 27 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 28 | Nominated care district judges can : ( a ) transfer cases up to the High Court following transfer from the family proceedings court ; ( b ) consider " appeals " against a justices ' clerk 's refusal to transfer a case ; ( c ) make emergency protection orders in proceedings issued in the county court or transferred up from the family proceedings court ; ( d ) give directions and make uncontested public law orders ; ( e ) make some public law orders in contested cases , eg education supervision orders . |
| 29 | The normal rules apply where applications do not have this effect although there may be a good argument for transferring such cases up to the High Court . |
| 30 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |