Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day . |
| 2 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 3 | Manufacturing industry was still in recession right up to the end of 1992 , and both manufacturing and total industrial output fell last year for the third year in a row , according to the Central Statistical Office 's figures yesterday . |
| 4 | This RYA recognised school offers a variety of sailing courses catering for the absolute beginner right up to the most advanced sailor . |
| 5 | The ongoing development is continued in the story right up to the present day and it is very interesting to see the numerous designs which have been tried , tested and put into operation . |
| 6 | Naturally , therefore , you will want to tilt the camcorder right up to the head , but if the shot now includes a large area of bright sky in the background , the auto-iris will reduce the exposure and George 's head will become a featureless silhouette . |
| 7 | " She 's forgetful and sometimes a little difficult , but she still does the garden and she did all the cooking right up to your aunt 's death . " |
| 8 | Scribbling changes in the margin of his text right up to the last minute , Mr Clinton insisted the burden of his new taxes were spread fairly across American society . |
| 9 | It also meant constant fighting right up to the last day , and for Bomber Command no let-up in the night by night sorties into enemy skies . |
| 10 | For the malting season was complementary to the farming season : as soon as the corn harvest was over the malting began , and it went on right through the winter and early spring right up to the eve of the haysel . |
| 11 | They could even have suspected me had they not found the two sets of footprints in the soft snow right up to the very hedge where Martin was hiding . |
| 12 | Though The Lancet and the BMJ fought a rearguard action right up to the moment of final repeal , it was obvious that the sanitary principle had been successfully challenged by moralists . |
| 13 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 14 | However I played against that Leeds team , and believe me you had to wind the tape right up to your neck when you were facing them . |
| 15 | Course i e , it 's very expensive now but it it only used to be about one and six a pound right up to the end of the war and it 's now two pounds a pound and |
| 16 | On the contrary , the question she saw hovering behind Miss Violet 's innocent query remained at the forefront of her mind right up to the day the Brownings returned to the Casa Guidi . |
| 17 | Despite a slick campaign — a precursor of that just ended — Labour lost for the third time in a row , its vote scarcely up on that of 1983 . |
| 18 | But Lily is used to it — a quick glance now up to the box where an evening-coated Duke sits , double-barrelled opera glass trained on her . |
| 19 | That the two are almost invariably found together is a commonplace : but why , at Market Harborough , does the church of St Dionysius spring grandly up from the market place without any green space around it , without a vestige of a church-yard ? |
| 20 | Tramways and overhead cableways were built to tip the waste rock high up on the moorland hillsides since the valley floors had little spare space . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's the stench of treachery and conspiracy high up in London , ’ he commented eventually . |
| 22 | A disappointing result then up at the Manor ; Oxford United one , Charlton Athletic one . |
| 23 | Lay the bricks starting from one side almost up to the centre , checking each one for position against a string line attached to the centre of the arch former , and against the marks on the circumference . |
| 24 | Novice parachutists who blocked out fear completely up to the moment of the jump were often overcome with an overwhelming and incapacitating anxiety such that they not only did not jump but decided to give up jumping forever . |
| 25 | And McHarg seethed : ‘ I am not whingeing because we did not deserve to win , but Dean Richards exploited the offside law right up to its limit . ’ |
| 26 | He was active in deaf work right up to his death in 1927 . |
| 27 | As a child I was taken to the dread Hector McDarroch in Glasgow and he did my dental work right up to my teens Friends of my youth tell me that he inspired a similar lasting fear in them , too , and in fact there must be a whole generation of Glaswegians who feel the same . |
| 28 | He spoke , however , with a stammer which accentuated his natural shyness right up to his trial , when , miraculously , as some of his followers said , it disappeared . |
| 29 | He 's got long cupboards from the window right up to the ceiling . |
| 30 | with two , three drawer chests and then another wardrobe right up to the window erm sixteen ninety four |