Example sentences of "up [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calling on an acting ability not required since her childhood , she covered her patient with a cotton blanket and then hitched up each leg in turn and strapped them into the lithotomy stirrups , thus trapping the hoaxer until the joke had run its course . |
| 2 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 3 | Mainly because the doctors have to match up each page with copy and that does n't |
| 4 | Will power of the iron man Mining millionaire 's death opens up rich seam of intrigue and pits widow against daughter in struggle for vast riches |
| 5 | If , as you claim , medical sociology , and your ethnographic methods , can really open up this realm of process and tell us what is going on in the ‘ black box ’ then you 've got to be more entrepreneurial . |
| 6 | Twenty-five was about the average age of marriage for Scottish women , — and it does appear to be the case that with the notable exception of Dundee ( where a large number of women continued working ) it was usual throughout the period up to 1914 to give up regular employment on marriage and to return to it only if widowed or in great hardship . |
| 7 | Odo de Grandson 's fellow-Savoyard , Jean de Grilly ( d. 1303 ) , was Edward 's lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine ( 1266–8 , 1278–87 ) and built up considerable expertise in French and Gascon affairs . |
| 8 | Keeping up permanent co-ordination between personality and outer appearance is as oppressive as never daring to appear in public without a set of fully matching clothes and accessories . |