Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I keep wondering what he 'd do if I wandered up to the edge of the pit and leaned over and yelled , ‘ Oi , you down there . |
| 2 | And , them will survive there , but during er the Winter , starting October , you could see the face of the plantation of that was facing the sea , it all scorched up towards the end of O of er December . |
| 3 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 4 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 5 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 6 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 7 | This does mean , of course , that there is no control over the model 's yaw axis ( rudder to you fixed-wing flyers ) during the descent , although the natural weathercock effect of the fuselage will keep it lined up in the direction of flight . |
| 8 | He peered up into the mass of wires again , and gave one a poke . |
| 9 | It is precisely because market forces have in the long run caught up with the operation of the CAP , as they inevitably would , that we are in such trouble . |
| 10 | For them , especially , it 's time we caught up with the rest of the European Community and extended to all workers employment protection , pro rata benefits and pay , as well as parental leave and childcare . |
| 11 | In 1737–8 he served on a committee of the Goldsmiths ’ Company , promoting the Plate Offences Act , and moved up through the hierarchy of the court , only failing to serve as prime warden . |
| 12 | The appearance of a sensitive strategy for the future development of Wales , the first review for a quarter of a century , is a timely reminder of the skill and experience in planning built up since the creation of the Welsh counties in 1974 . |
| 13 | In silence we worked , completely indifferent to the freezing cold , as the pile built up at the side of the house . |
| 14 | Usually , but not always , this will be the result of a clogged trap or of grease built up on the inside of the waste branch pipe and is relatively easy to deal with . |
| 15 | When I regained control , telling myself , ‘ It 's OK , you 're not taped , you 're not in the truck , ’ I was always left with a residue of remembered fear , which built up in the back of my mind . |
| 16 | After a record rise in the spring , the price reaching £800 ( $1,300 ) a tonne for the first time , lead prices fell in early December to around £340 ( $660 ) a tonne as stocks built up in the face of sluggish demand from battery manufacturers . |
| 17 | Though Labour joined with the Conservatives in May 1940 to fight the Second World War , under Churchill 's leadership , it is clear that despite the almost obsessive concern of the public about the threat of European fascism it was only the Labour Party , slow and cumbersome in its rate of change , which actually squared up to the necessity of facing fascism with military sanctions if necessary . |
| 18 | This being the case , we only indicate the means of production and means of consumption used up for the production of the means of destruction . |
| 19 | A part of ‘ gross ’ investment will therefore be needed simply to replace these assets used up in the course of production . |
| 20 | This action is commonly attributed to the fear of the working class stirred up by the course of events in France . |
| 21 | As they trudged up to the top of a sand-dune , Seal Sands Lock was there below them . |
| 22 | Well we , we had about sixty erm , people that trudged up to the top of the hill including erm , one who did n't know there was a wedding , he was a runner , and then he |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , West Indies dominated these , winning seventeen of the first twenty-two played up to the end of 1985–6 . |
| 24 | Bryan Thomson 's match was already at the first tee when Patrick strolled up with the bag of clubs over his shoulder . |
| 25 | Jessamy woke up on the morning of her twenty-fourth birthday and decided it was time she put her life in order . |
| 26 | The morning I was due to leave — the day Chernenko died — I woke up to the sound of Russian troops singing marching songs from the nearby barracks . |
| 27 | It was nearly dark when I woke up to the sound of Marcus calling me . |
| 28 | It was sweet dreams all round but they went to sleep far too early — and woke up to the reality of elimination . |
| 29 | I woke up in the afternoon of the ninth of February to tennis-ball-sized sore eyes and a dirty pink mist , and searingly painful lights . |
| 30 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |