Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 2 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |
| 3 | My Queen , there is a gale and a high tide coming together , and the general view is that the women and children might be better off up in the hill-houses . ’ |
| 4 | The trolled and gargoyled buttresses wheel around you through rifts in the cloud ; they stretch , soar , disappear , solidify again suddenly out of the vapour then drift impossibly far up into the mist until your senses reel at the evanescent dynamism of the scene . |
| 5 | He toured Britain in 1955 and competed in the British Grand Prix at Aintree but had to retire after 34 laps in his Cooper-Bristol that was just not up to the task of Formula One racing against the likes of Moss and Fangio 's Mercedes . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's just not up to the job . |
| 7 | ‘ There are n't enough of them and they 're just not up to the standards women want . |
| 8 | To go away off up into the workings again . |
| 9 | If you go down Road there , I know they 're getting confused , if you go just straight up below the arch onto the main road to Belfast and Antrim , turn right up the top of the road a bit , and it 's your first er it 's building on the |
| 10 | These are just straight up against the metal . |
| 11 | The woman pulled on her cigarette , then blew the smoke away straight up into the air with an exaggerated abandonment . |
| 12 | With your fingers pointing downwards , gently pull each hand alternately straight up from the floor or table . |
| 13 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 14 | But Maria was already back up to the piano stool . |
| 15 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 16 | If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade . |
| 17 | Tucked away high up in the Ratikon Alps , Brand is a beautiful little village in the traditional Austrian style . |
| 18 | My own plans are still totally up in the air , except that I am sure to resume my work when the new season gets underway — and then I am just going to make music wherever I am offered the best conditions for it . |
| 19 | Before I left the fortress , in the late afternoon I climbed once more up to the guardian 's hut to say goodbye . |
| 20 | Prost was always ahead on the grid ; Lauda was always quickly up through the field . |
| 21 | He would be patient , stalk her carefully right up to the bedroom door . |
| 22 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 23 | The right time to measure lipids for the newly diagnosed diabetic is when good control has been achieved and thereafter probably yearly up to the age of sixty . |
| 24 | As we had managed to walk so far the previous day , we were fairly high up in the mountains , and knew that the fog could take as long as 48 hours to clear . |
| 25 | It had started to rain more heavily , unless they were now actually up inside the clouds . |
| 26 | A small window , rather high up in the wall facing the door , was glazed in frosted glass with a single pane above of the stained kind in a dark purplish-red . |
| 27 | erm A loyal friend , as well as an extremely amusing one , he seems to me to have lived remarkably well up to the standards that he set himself . |
| 28 | If the sea is deep right up to the coast the waves may reach the coast and be reflected back without breaking . |
| 29 | Yesterday 's stage-managed show of Tory loyalty do not remove the widespread doubts that Mr Major is simply not up to the job . |
| 30 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle . |