Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 2 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
| 3 | Rise straight back up through the strength in your thighs . |
| 4 | When they were walking up through the Grove on her birthday . |
| 5 | French patriotism had been whipped Up through the antics of her revolutionary armies abroad , but the Russian Civil War had no effect of this kind . |
| 6 | I crossed behind her , and seized a pair of steps , used to reach the higher shelves ; I dragged the steps to the middle of the room , climbed them , swung myself up through the skylight by which the monster had entered . |
| 7 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
| 8 | From the ‘ savings , ’ as they are referred to , funds have been redeployed to make up for a decade in which growth of support for basic scientific research was , at best , sluggish . |
| 9 | Och , Ah 've been dyin' tae get up for a weekend amang yirsels . |
| 10 | On arrival , conference participants were invited to sign up for a workshop of their choice . |
| 11 | Lucien , however , liked the comparative privacy of the court and , once he 'd become familiar with the routines of the household and felt confident enough to venture around alone , went there often to limber up for an hour before his own breakfast . |
| 12 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 13 | One grandmother , remembered as ‘ dressed all day in black silk ’ , had an annual income of £700 from the New River Company , which she ‘ spent in bringing us up ’ to make up for the incompetence of her solicitor son : she would sit all day ‘ upright in an armchair at the side of the fire ’ , opposite to her son 's . |
| 14 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 15 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 16 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 17 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 18 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 19 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 21 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I prefer it if men find ways of dressing to enhance their personality rather than using clothes to make up for the lack of one . |
| 23 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 24 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 25 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 26 | Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison . |
| 27 | And that 'll be a t turn up for the books for him . |
| 28 | At the time and date arranged , he meets an old friend and decides not to turn up for the meal with his niece . |
| 29 | We paraded the following night as it was getting dark , the parade ground lit up by flaming torches with four tanks lined up as a backdrop to our ceremony . |
| 30 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |