Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ran up between the windows of two rooms used as bedrooms by the plaintiffs , thus allowing anyone using the staircase to see directly into the ground-floor flat . |
| 2 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
| 3 | She was lying on the carpet , the lips of her cunt , soft and blunt , pushing up through a mound of black curls . |
| 4 | Areas which were both ambiguous acoustically and relatively unconstrained by higher-level knowledge sources would not be processed until a more global interpretation of the utterance had been built up through the extension of various islands . |
| 5 | They scrambled up through the masses of dead leaves and dripping twigs and into the field beyond . |
| 6 | Bodie had cut up through the rows of parked cars , swinging up onto the half ramp , and pumping two shots into the van 's front tyre . |
| 7 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 8 | Some cooks are born great , others have their natural skill improved by training , yet others train hard enough to make up for a lack of natural talent . |
| 9 | I fear that our nation has set itself up for a decade of national strife . |
| 10 | These 85 patients have been followed up for a total of 583 person-years . |
| 11 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 12 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 13 | Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours . |
| 14 | Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours . |
| 15 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 16 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 17 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 18 | Hold up for a count of 10 , relax and repeat . |
| 19 | The other 43 patients underwent long term endoprosthesis placement and were followed up for a mean of 15.9 months ; six ( 15% ) developed cholangitis requiring surgery or endoscopic clearance of the ducts , there were no biliary related deaths . |
| 20 | Ten patients died of unrelated causes and the remaining 10 were followed up for a mean of 26 months with no biliary symptoms . |
| 21 | In the same year Forbes described 22 patients with contraindications for surgery in which an endoprosthesis was placed , of these four ( 18% ) developed cholangitis , three had a repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with clearance of the ducts , and two died of unrelated causes , the remaining patients were followed up for a mean of 14 months with no complications ( 17 ) . |
| 22 | Out of the 25 patients discharged from the hospital 21 treated by endoscopy and two treated with surgery were followed up for a mean of 28.3 and 22.5 months , respectively . |
| 23 | The drawback is that your expert driver from the London Limousine Company ( SE1 ) only turns up for a minimum of eight hours — a standard feature of chauffeur hire . |
| 24 | All patients were followed up for a minimum of two years through the inflammatory bowel diseases clinic . |
| 25 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 26 | Of seven patients whose percutaneous cholecystolithotomy failed because of residual cystic duct stones , only two were advised to undergo cholecystectomy and the remainder have been followed up for a median of 14 months . |
| 27 | Recurrent stones in five of the nine patients followed up for a median of 14 months are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
| 28 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |
| 29 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 30 | Over the years a number of international agreements have been drawn up for the management of various global commons . |