Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd picked up a beer can , lifted Beeby 's legs up with one hand , sat down on the sofa and let her legs fall across his lap . |
| 2 | He took her in his car up to one of the few routes over the Apennines , but when she arrived at the pass , the Passo della Cisa , and saw the undulating , never-ending hills , she panicked . |
| 3 | on that of 10 years ago , investment up by one third , productivity up by more than one half and manufactured exports up by almost three quarters . |
| 4 | As it was , British Coal 's intervention led needlessly to the break up of one of the last surviving High Victorian ensembles in England . |
| 5 | In the non-Midlands games there was a breathtaking finish at Vicarage Road where Bruce Rioch 's team were three goals up at one stage . |
| 6 | Individual veins are up to 100 m long and 2–3 m wide within zones up to one kilometre long and 100m wide . |
| 7 | I saw a boy up in one of the trees . |
| 8 | And if you want to pick the motorhome up in one place and leave it in another , you face some hefty one-way surcharge of between £250 and £300 . |
| 9 | ‘ Honest to God , I put three fingers up on one hand and one finger on the other , smiled at him and then sat down , ’ said Redknapp . |
| 10 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 11 | Lloyd put a foot up on one of the chairs and flicked imaginary dust from the toecap with his fingertips . |
| 12 | Harry Fischer comes out of his room in his shirtsleeves , hoisting his braces up with one hand , and holding in the other some letter or Ministry circular which has arrived in the morning post , and which he reads mockingly aloud to evoke their common derision at the obtuseness and bureaucracy of the world outside the office . |
| 13 | Most enclosed a gift — ‘ please , please accept it Hannah — I feel I owe you such a lot ’ — ranging from cheques up to one hundred pounds from people one hoped could afford it , down to postal orders for fifty pence from pensioners . |
| 14 | But with monthly payment , money balances will be held to meet expenditures up to one month in the future . |
| 15 | On the foreign exchanges , sterling gained ground on the weaker dollar , ending the day up at one dollar point nine seven three oh , however , it ended down one point seven pfennigs closing at three deutschmarks point O O six four . |
| 16 | He first made the riddle up during one of our mummer 's games at Twelfth Night . ’ |
| 17 | Standard haemagglutination inhibition techniques with diluted human anti-A , anti-B , and anti-H ( extracted from the lectin Ulex europaeus ) were applied with saliva at dilutions up to one in 16 . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ They wake people up at one or two o'clock in the morning with their laughing and shouting . ’ |
| 19 | Sheldukher held the baby up with one hand . |
| 20 | When the table was ready she filled a deep pan with water and put it on the cooker , her movements slow and simpering in contrast to those of her mother , who quickly poured olive oil into a big black frying-pan , threw in the artichokes , covered them and rinsed her hands and arms before drawing a chair up to one of the cauldrons and sliding into the curd up to her elbows . |
| 21 | Her father bought them a drink and ordered lunch and they wheeled Jennifer 's chair up to one of the small tables that had been set up outside the marquee in the sunshine . |
| 22 | While Wakelate Sinister furtively discussed business with Lorimer 's father in an inner office , Lorimer had gratefully coupled with Cleo up against one of the cold , marble statues that lined a colonnaded walk along the back of the house . |
| 23 | She put the ladder up against the stone wall of the cottage , gathered her skirts up in one hand and started to climb . |
| 24 | On the Saturday of my third weekend at the Palace Hotel I looked their address up in one of the telephone directories in my local library . |
| 25 | His eyes narrowed , he thrust her chin up with one hard hand . |
| 26 | Fenniway crossed through again into the boarding annexe , and sent a message up by one of the constables helping the technicians on the stairs . |
| 27 | Babies up to one year must be secured in an approved restraint designed for their weight . |
| 28 | Babies up to one year must use a suitable seat or restrained carrycot , if available . |
| 29 | You wrap all those , all that lot up in one sort of , you know . |
| 30 | Nevertheless a 1914 government report cited the case of a woman found guilty of cruelty for locking her children up in one room while she went out to work for 10/ a week . |