Example sentences of "up the [adj] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because you can go down in your first line move to the first letter o , after the number , hit the tab key and you 've actually lined up the first line along with the rest of your paragraph . |
| 2 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 3 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 4 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 5 | A pair Class 20s , Nos 20007 and 20053 , struggle up the steep incline out of Coalbrookdale with an empty MGR train on 3 November 1988 . |
| 6 | He was shovelling up the broken glass on to a piece of cardboard . |
| 7 | She stooped and scooped up the little dog on to her lap . |
| 8 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 9 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |