Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 2 | Another top rock outfit , AEROSMITH , have signed up for a show at the Point Depot in Dublin on October |
| 3 | If there was somebody dolled up as a copper at the Abbey , you 've got a conspiracy , and it 's only if there was a conspiracy that the Secret Service is really interested , because that means there 's at least one bod floating loose who presumably still wants to kill the President . |
| 4 | Not in that way ! ’ she added hastily as Eddie jerked her head up like a watchdog at the sound of an intruder . |
| 5 | His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier , fresh lined with red and gold damask , its silver handles polished bright . |
| 6 | The big second-hand machines and new boiler were stored in the vacated building and a two-storey building was put up with a canteen at the front and offices at the rear . |
| 7 | However many you get , and however long they work , there 's no guarantee they 'll come up with a solution at the end . |
| 8 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 9 | After that , she showed him up into a chamber at the top of the house . |
| 10 | They were dull-eyed and fur clad , with hair bound up into a bunch at the crown and the rattle of bones and polished stones around their limbs . |
| 11 | He was defending himself with great skill , every now and then sliding his hands down the staff and striking at a distance with its full length , and then suddenly changing direction and bringing the shortened end up in a jab at the face or stomach of one of the attackers he had tempted to come too close . |
| 12 | On the day I got out they picked us up in a taxi at the prison and then we went to the hospital to pick him up . |
| 13 | The steam boiler had been set up in a shed at the back of the offworlder 's house . |
| 14 | The sunniest pictures were pinned up on a board at the end of the ward . |
| 15 | Now if you want to see something that 's up on a shelf at the side , ask one of the helpers wearing a red jersey and they 'll take it down for you and show it to you . |
| 16 | Because of Hooke 's law , when a material is strained the stress in it varies from nothing at the beginning of the operation up to a maximum at the final strain . |
| 17 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 18 | The pulsing light is picked up by a sensor at the distant end , converted into on-off electrical signals , amplified , fed to an digital-to-analogue converter and the information used to operate an earpiece , loudspeaker or other output device . |