Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of the day , how a member state organises itself is entirely up to the member state itself .
2 Each triangular guyline is attached at two points halfway up on the pole sleeve 18in apart .
3 Above the cave we found an overgrown track which soon emerged onto bare rock and led steeply up to the cliff edge .
4 A door crashed somewhere up beyond a curtain wall , and the voices of women carried like a peal of bells — melodious , chiming upon one another — into the well of the gallery immediately above .
5 I remember her telling me — much later in life — of that standing on a distant hillside and seeing the ochre dust float slowly up into the azure sky .
6 ‘ Drop the gun ! ’ screamed Liz Spalding , her body dropping slightly to a crouch , the gun she held coming instinctively up to the fire position
7 A fox had been in the night and left footprints in the dew , right up to the kitchen wagon .
8 The PSC in Gazankulu also needs to negotiate with the Lebowa authorities and information has to be disseminated right up to the village authority level — the chiefs and their councils .
9 takes over , Blackburn push it wide , at last has found some space but comes across to try and close him down , support just behind from , it 's a woeful cross from and it 's easily cleared by Shrewsbury Town right up to the centre circle , where it 's taken on the chest of Nicky .
10 Hence the weedkiller train could not be put into the loop and had to remain on the main line , being put right up to the buffer stop because a passenger train was due .
11 She was Van 's piano teacher right up to the Moscow prize , and will tell at the drop of a hat the story of his childhood promise , which first manifested itself when Van was a tender lad of three .
12 It was even more frightening than the chugging , and it came right up to the shelter door .
13 The problem went right up to the London board of the company , and it decreed that , in future , sums of money of any size should be handled only by European expatriate employees of the company .
14 All associations and relationships declared in one space can thus be subsequently tested in another related space right up to the reference domain .
15 Factories , streets and towns , right up to the hero city of Stalingrad , were hurriedly renamed .
16 For this reason a number of theologians , right up to the modem day , have been profoundly uninterested in the historical debate over Christian origins .
17 As it turned out , the huge complexity of deciding exactly how to sell off all or part of BR dogged and divided ministers right up to the election campaign .
18 Mrs Hollidaye met Dot at the train with the Ford drawn right up to the station exit .
19 The edging sander will smooth out uneven areas , and get right up to the skirting board
20 The mill pond is still maintained in good order although it is smaller , formerly extending right up to the back wall .
21 He would be patient , stalk her carefully right up to the bedroom door .
22 Peter Mansfield , a distinguished British commentator on the Middle East , sketches its history from the Sumerians to Napoleon 's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and takes a more detailed look at events thereafter , right up to the Gulf War .
23 He was by now running the family 's 700-acre holding in his own right , and farming right up to the power station boundary .
24 The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space .
25 A pyramid administrative structure , establishing links from popular committees in villages right up to the Executive Committee of the PLO ( in its capacity as a Cabinet ) , can be established .
26 Before the construction of the Promenade here , in 1903 , the sands came right up to the tram track , as seen in this view of a Dreadnought approaching the terminus .
27 Yeah I 'll be planting mine right up against the metal fence
28 It is , in fact , one of the longest avenues in the US : a meandering boulevard that winds from Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan straight up to the state capital of Albany , some 150 miles away .
29 A lion padded towards them with shaggy gold mane and blood-stained jaws , came straight up to the car window .
30 The last few patients , mainly elderly , have now been moved to other hospitals and today staff were sadly clearly up after a farewell party , three and a half years after the research ward opened .
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