Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill , who survived a late collision with Berger 's Ferrari lost a lot of time in the traffic and this gave Gerhard the opportunity to close up in the closing stages . |
| 2 | I had an interview for a job which is a four year term at the — the job is based there but is to run the exams set up of the four major surgical colleges viz London , Glasgow , Edinburgh and Dublin . |
| 3 | He also showed that the zeolite used as the exchanger could be regenerated with sodium to replace the calcium taken up during the softening cycle . |
| 4 | The bike shot up in the air . |
| 5 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 6 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 7 | Out of the front window he saw the ‘ For Sale ’ sign , the white paint of the board showing up in the light that shone from between the curtains of Tom 's cottage . |
| 8 | The rest of the sack matched up to the quality of manufacture and finish of the back system — as it should do at the price . |
| 9 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 10 | It seems to have been assumed throughout the discussions leading up to the signature of the Convention that the use of the postal channel was indeed a mode of service , of notification . |
| 11 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 12 | It is for the humanities to speak up for the value of retrospective conversion , and for some national planning to be undertaken to achieve this , as they , and to some extent the social sciences have most to gain from such an investment . |
| 13 | The failure of the insurgents to secure the country 's political and economic nerve-centres , the provision of German and Italian military aid and the resistance put up by the defenders of Republican legality had turned the insurrection into a war whose duration or outcome no one could foretell . |
| 14 | As the riders struggle up through the hairpins , you can hear the screams of encouragement from below . |
| 15 | The clerk stared up at the clear blue sky . |
| 16 | I was just sticking one of the mouse heads back on when the birds went up into the evening air , kaw-calling and screaming , wheeling over the path through the dunes where it went near their nests . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 18 | Both the agreements and the plans drawn up between the King of Scotia and the Normans at the start of the winter began to be implemented , and the camp at Scone became empty . |
| 19 | ‘ The Führer came up with the idea . |
| 20 | The Labrador bounded up in the back seat , excited by familiar smells . |
| 21 | I found a quiet corner of the deck to gaze up at the moonless sky . |
| 22 | This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope . |
| 23 | At times the supporting leg would bend when on balance , whilst the working one was also bent with the foot turned up at the ankle during certain poses , or when performing a rond de jambe en dehors or en dedans during the pas de deux . |
| 24 | Mr. Beazley invites me to give a very broad interpretation to paragraph 12 of the Kalfelis [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 5565 judgment and to say that all these swap actions fall broadly within the test that it is expedient to hear and determine them together ; he argues that the use of the plural in that paragraph shows that the principle there laid down covers several defendants in groups of actions as well as several defendants in an individual action ; and he submits that there is a risk here of irreconcilable judgments , seeing that both at first instance and thereafter , if the cases proceed up to the appellate process , different decisions may be reached in England and Scotland respectively , on the questions of English law which arise ( there is no suggestion that Scottish law applies to these actions ) . |
| 25 | I would n't be so stupid as to pretend to have any idea what Claudia was going through during the hours leading up to the birth . |
| 26 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 27 | The latest figures from the Home Office show that the largest of the 60 seizures of the drug made up to the end of June this year was 40 grammes in Nottingham . |
| 28 | Leaving Christian pulling on his boots with the intention of going to assist the gipsies , Seb made his way to the camp set up by the road-makers . |
| 29 | Finding the courtyard full , latecomers were taking up their stations in perfectly straight ranks first on the steps , then in the roads leading up to the mosque , then out in the gardens and bazaars beyond . |
| 30 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |