Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 2 | The floorboards struck ice up through the unprotected soles of her feet . |
| 3 | Beyond the houses the lane became a rough track crossing a bridge towards the forestry development , climbing up through the young trees of the forestry and out on to open country towards the summit of Shunner Fell , where , after much bog-trotting and splashing about , we hit the line of ash palings that had been laid down here to stop further erosion of the Pennine Way but which had very largely sunk into the bog . |
| 4 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 5 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 6 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 7 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 8 | The signs are that he is prepared to sign up for the emerging versions of both political and monetary union . |
| 9 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 10 | Ocean barriers opening up during the early phases of mammalian evolution had protected the marsupials in Australia and the lemurs and other unique animals of Madagascar . |
| 11 | I think one of the things which the French have learnt to do is , indeed , to integrate specialists , whether they 're scientists , whether they 're economists , erm and their generalists , that 's to say the people who have basically a legal , economic , administrative background , to integrate them within the administrative hierarchy in a much better way than we have , erm and this is erm something which does I think make it easier sometimes to provide advice that really is erm clued up about the technical aspects of something . |
| 12 | In the sitting-room , Millie was standing on a chair and reaching up towards the upper panes of the window . |
| 13 | One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force . |
| 14 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 15 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 16 | Leaving aside social legislation , the most important of these factors was the opening up of the grain-bearing areas of North America , refrigeration , and acceleration of maritime transport . |
| 17 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 18 | For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter . |
| 19 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 20 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraints of staff time ’ … |
| 21 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 22 | The sun stirs up the winds ; the winds suck up the swells ; the swells pump out waves that trip up against the jutting kerbs of the land . |
| 23 | One should therefore learn how to give orders , and how to put up with the unsuccessful results of one 's efforts ( Notizario , 11,1985 , p. 21 ) . |
| 24 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |
| 25 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 26 | Why , I asked , did he find it acceptable for an artist to have to put up with the paltry sums of money he offered when he himself lived in such style ? |
| 27 | They will meet up with the commanding officers of some of the major units on the ground to brief them on the results of their reconnaissance . |
| 28 | Soaps do n't usually focus on characters like this , people who grew up with the idealistic values of the 1960s and early 1970s , who have put off having children until their thirties , who worry about the environment but also worry about how they 're not managing to do enough about it . |
| 29 | Every health minister faces the same central problem : it is not just a matter of putting right the deficiencies of the past ; you also need to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of the present . |
| 30 | There are only the smallest of delicately dropped clues as to how and why they ended up with the social skills of a herd of rhinos . |