Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ?
2 Andy reaches up to the iron grating and pulls at it .
3 Mo gets up on the top of them stands right up the top , spreads around there 's !
4 GAZZA limbers up with the help of Alan Shearer
5 At the end of the book of Deuteronomy Moses climbs up to the summit of Mount Nebo ‘ which is opposite Jericho ’ ( Deut.
6 The ancient HIGH STREET winds up between the Town Hall on the right and Purbeck House seen at the top of the picture .
7 Jan cleans up at the Community from seven to ten .
8 This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ?
9 South Africa wakes up to the threat of AIDS
10 Nick Fielding catches up with the Bank of Crooks and Conmen International
11 Here is one place where America 's concern with Eastern Europe bumps up against the Community 's own deliberations .
12 Unless Britain catches up with the progress being made in the wealthiest EC countries , Britain as a whole risks becoming a backward ‘ region ’ of the Community .
13 Japan faces up to the software crisis
14 If Niall turns up in the dock for blowing up redcoats , I 'll feel guilty .
15 SANTA CRUZ FACES UP TO THE GATHERING COMPETITION WITH OPEN DESKTOP LITE , PRODUCT REORGANISATION
16 Joyce sits up in the bed beside me .
17 Mark looks up at the sky .
18 Some of the human wreckage from the Garrimpos washes up at the hospital at Itti Tuba Hundreds line up daily for malaria tests .
19 In Austen 's vision , there is a reward for integrity : Elizabeth ends up with the life that society would wish for her and yet which she also wants for herself .
20 Paul gets up off the floor and sits on the bed .
21 Another Desert Storm , even another Somalia — where the United Nations appeals for someone to help , and America steps up with the will and manpower to do so — might give Mr Clinton an aura of leadership that could help at home .
22 WHEN KIERON steps up onto the stage it is with a determination to trip the light fantastic and provide the evening with some of its more mellow moments .
23 Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes .
24 John looks up at the cop 's face .
25 I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction .
26 I wonder how Julie stacks up in the grub stakes , he mused to himself .
27 sort of , quarter past seven he 's had to leave in the morning to get there and then not getting home to , sort of , seven o'clock Dave picks up from the station and I think
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