Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun sg] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 2 | I announced his name at Reception , and the girl rang up the guy and said , ‘ Your taxi 's here … . ’ |
| 3 | I shifted into second , and the Discovery stormed up the slope with a roar of V8 power , only to slither to a halt halfway up , its front wheels sliding sideways on a sheet of ice and threatening the worst off-road fate of all — to be stuck across a slope . |
| 4 | The stick and the fist backed up the array of legal powers . |
| 5 | The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section . |
| 6 | Woman and the man went up the garden |
| 7 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 8 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 9 | The headlights of the taxi-van behind us flashed as it hit bumps in the road and the interior lit up the faces of the men in the van with me . |
| 10 | Sometimes he turned to talk to Grace , and the candlelight lit up the big brown eyes in his kind , old face . |
| 11 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 12 | If his employer 's scheme has ‘ contracted out ’ , they must pay you half his guaranteed minimum pension , and the state makes up the difference . |
| 13 | Lee switched on the torch and the beam lit up the stack-yard like a searchlight . |
| 14 | Then the twisty little mouth twitched and the twitch travelled up the cheeks , the eyebrows wriggled and the blue eyes danced like sunlit water . |
| 15 | As I said , it is a pleasure to speak in the debate , despite the rhetoric and the attempt to whip up the masses outside the House by saying that the Labour party comprises anti-patriotic pacifists . |
| 16 | Watching the traffic and the rain swallow up the departing taxi , the Captain wondered how the man stayed so thin if he ate that way every day . |
| 17 | It was the veil that told it was not the garden , then the hat that went to race-meetings and the dressing-case made up the rest of the story : Maman was going away . |
| 18 | And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same |
| 19 | And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same . |
| 20 | And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same |
| 21 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 22 | He should have the grace to admit that he was wrong and the grace to clear up the muddle that has existed in his ranks since his colleague the hon. Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden ( Mr. Galbraith ) recently announced that he was going to abolish fund holding . |
| 23 | After continuing to Paignton , the party changed platforms for a short steam hauled run over the scenic Paignton & Dartmouth Railway , operated by the Dart Valley Railway Company , and a river cruise up the Dart with a difference . |
| 24 | It was to take a year and a half to build up the momentum for the Hot Autumn . |
| 25 | And a star-shell lit up the winter night sky … |
| 26 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 27 | They called police and an officer climbed up the fire escape and made the grim discovery . |
| 28 | But the ambience called up the shades of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin , and of Mimi , and these began to work their fermentation in my imagination . |
| 29 | erm we decided from the start that erm the mums who have their kids in the creche should make some contribution towards the costs ; we 're providing them with a benefit erm but the company picks up the major part of the bill erm but in terms of the output from the additional sewing machinists that we 've got , it 's very , very cost-effective , yes . |
| 30 | That 's where ye 'll be living — near our hospital behind Hill Street which runs parallel to Main Street , but a wee bit up the hillside . ’ |