Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 3 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 4 | Where others might see a more complex situation with a conceptual continuum between starvation , hunger , destitution , poverty ( want ) , and inequality , Moore abolishes poverty by dividing it up between the two extremes of the continuum , also at the same time neatly side-stepping discussion of the visible increase in begging , destitution , and homelessness in major British cities . |
| 5 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 6 | Inside the grounds the path continued , curving up between the overgrown rhododendrons in the direction of the house . |
| 7 | For lack of alternative parties or serious candidates with known individual characters to vote for , a gulf opened up between the isolated villagers on the one hand and the Roslavl' or Smolensk Party men on the other , intent on modelling themselves strictly on Smolensk or Moscow prototypes and on Moscow 's instructions . |
| 8 | There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man . |
| 9 | The floorboards struck ice up through the unprotected soles of her feet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I lay back and stared up through the intricate branches into the sky . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 15 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 16 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 19 | The signs are that he is prepared to sign up for the emerging versions of both political and monetary union . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Whether directly or indirectly through a broker , documents submitted to the Stock Exchange for reading need to be marked up for the relevant references from the Yellow and Blue Books . |
| 22 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |
| 23 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 24 | The 1986 and 1987 figures show a rapid pick up for the larger firms in particular . |
| 25 | The gaps between the walls of the coral skeleton have been filled with calcite , showing up as the lighter colours of the sections . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 28 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Hope looked down the fell where Colonel and Mrs Moore were strolling with unskilful aimlessness , taking care never to look up towards the two figures on the rump of mountain . |