Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
2 | ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ? |
3 | I 'm not saying that and I 'm not saying I ca n't cope , but it should be a Marshal on this job so that I 'm there if anything comes up in the village , you see what I mean ? ’ |
4 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
5 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
6 | His comment suggests that it is almost as if , when someone woke up in the morning , they were suddenly possessed of something mysterious in becoming conscious , like a metaphysical virus . |
7 | So when someone walks up with the intention of breaking in a light comes on , I mean at one time , it 's not the same now , but at one time when these lights with the detectors first came out , nobody actually knew whether they were switched on or not . |
8 | There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man . |
9 | As we can see , though , new concerns with how writing interacts with history are causing us to abandon the idea of literary study as something caught up with the transcendental . |
10 | When one grows up in the north-east , one is aware that the region is a long way from the English seat of power in London . |