Example sentences of "up the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coughing blood and phlegm , he raised his voice and shouted up the staircase into the sounds of the storm and the destruction . |
| 2 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 3 | Well I gets him pulled out of the ditch and I brings him down and it 's the time I , I had Sarah boil up the boiler for the pigs . |
| 4 | Normally playing seated amphitheaters , our audience and the Mary Chain 's tend to be up the back on the lawns . |
| 5 | But he also sub-divided these manifold elites into a governing elite , composed of all leaders who directly or indirectly play a part in ruling the society , and a non-governing elite who make up the remainder of the elites ( 1935 , vol. 3 , pp. 1422 — 4 ) . |
| 6 | Combined with the temporary solution of the coal crisis in 1925 , which will be discussed later , the anticipated textile victory buoyed up the whole of the trades union movement . |
| 7 | It is the duty of the community to provide through its social and welfare services the advice and support which such parents and children need … such help should always be directed towards building up the responsibility of the parents whenever this is at all possible ( Home Office , 1960 ) . |
| 8 | From the point when the water first burst the banks and began to rise up the gardens of the properties it was mainly a battle against he clock to try to stack everything as high as they could and take up the carpets . |
| 9 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 10 | Remarkably quickly , however , the last of the human tide ran from the house entrance and up the ramps of the rigs , which were now almost packed full . |
| 11 | The stock must be grown on as though nothing has happened — the top growth is needed to pull up the sap from the roots , past and into contact with the bud . |
| 12 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 13 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 14 | Also there was a marked tendency for all efficient personnel , especially Communists , to move quickly up the hierarchy from the villages to the guberniia centres . |
| 15 | Small-scale hydropower projects and electricity generated from waste make up the majority of the schemes which have received approval . |
| 16 | While weighing up the merits of the posts of legal advisor to the Girls Public Day School Trust versus running a legal advice centre in a South London Mental Hospital , she was invited to sit as a Judge on the South-East Circuit and then , of course , her mind was made up . |
| 17 | She , after all , had been left holding up the universe over the parents , and in all probability , whatever strict injunctions he issued now , she would , by the time he rejoined her , have relieved him of the most dreadful of all the duties his office laid on him , and somehow , with sense , sedatives and sturdy , unpretending sympathy , have gone part-way towards reconciling the bereaved to their bereavement . |
| 18 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 19 | Erm fact that you set up the scene for the introductions and you asked for it that you , you know , took and reduced those people to an image of which was good . |
| 20 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 21 | Not content with propping up the bar at the Rovers , the Inspiral Carpets , who have decided to call their latest meisterwerk ‘ Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ thought it would be a spiffing idea to promote aforementioned article with a series of displays in record shops featuring a fully inhabited fish tank . |
| 22 | England , Scotland and Wales , and each of their counties or regions , are all parts of Britain , but it would be odd , in summing up the values of the parts of Britain , to include both the values of Scotland , and that of Lothian region . |
| 23 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
| 24 | tidy up the rest of the things . |
| 25 | When they 'd gone Maggie gathered up the rest of the dishes and piled them in the sink . |
| 26 | MIDI In and Out and 9 volt DC in make up the rest of the sockets , with the mains switch completing the facilities . |
| 27 | The irony of my vision of the glass burning up the rest of the exhibits in the gallery in which it is housed , when here it is , burning up everything around it in this flat , burning me up . |
| 28 | Rain ran up the rest of the stairs . |
| 29 | Right , we need a cloth now to wipe up the bits round the edges . |
| 30 | Both Holywood and Instonians use the Olympia synthetic pitch as home venues , which threw up the possibility of the games being played back-to-back on April 24 — but the Centre has been already booked for that date for a Celtic boys football tournament . |