Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [prep] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Lay blind out flat with lining uppermost , and mark the position of the lath channel by measuring up from the hemline to a distance equal to the depth of the bottom pelmet . |
2 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
3 | This would consist of a meeting of staff , preferably with a chairman not directly involved with the work of the team , in which staff members would be encouraged to contribute information concerning the patient and his circumstances which would enable a full picture of the events leading up to the suicide to be established . |
4 | THE switchboard of The Northern was jammed yesterday morning with people phoning up with the answer to Saturday 's Stiff Little Fingers competition . |
5 | Erm , but I think he tended to leave the bringing up of the girls to his sister-in-law . |
6 | The Trust 's chief executive , Martin Dyer , is also moving up from the south to Askrigg Darrowby in TV 's All Creatures Great and Small . |
7 | By that time , many more men had arrived , swirling up through the yard to be sucked into the hall , as if it had become the quiet , humming centre of some whirlpool of power . |
8 | Yes oh yes er er when we had a wee baker 's van coming up from the Nedd to Lochassynt when when Lochassynt Lodge you see . |
9 | Two men crouched against each other , bums stuck out , arms swinging up from the grass to the grip in salmon-like curves . |
10 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |