Example sentences of "[noun sg] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been crying again and her mascara had been washed away and she looked like an eleven-year-old waking up in hospital after an operation . |
| 2 | I 'll go along with some radical improvement to the turbo-ram-jet engine concept ; perhaps a boost in top speed up to Mach 3.5 , even 4 at a stretch of the imagination . |
| 3 | As she risked a glance up at Roman 's dark face , her heart seemed to plummet down to her stomach . |
| 4 | Guy led Chalon back on to the road , casting another searching glance up at Isabel 's closed face . |
| 5 | Or young and trendy , favouring outlandish schemes for bringing religion up to date , inviting the congregation to shake hands with each other , and expecting them to sing newfangled and jolly hymns to the accompaniment of the local pop group . |
| 6 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 7 | Follow the path which runs parallel to the road on its eastern side up to Windgather Rocks . |
| 8 | When Gloria had got over the first shock of Saul 's horrifying death , she put the warehouse up for sale , together with the contents of the ship-chandlers shop on the ground floor , confident that she would soon find a purchaser . |
| 9 | A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch . |
| 10 | As she lifted it out , a piece of flaking gold paper floated to the floor and , to her astonishment , Lucenzo picked the little piece up with finger and thumb . |
| 11 | of the costs of the professional fees required to mount a bid up to £65,000 — that is , a maximum of £48,750 . |
| 12 | The catapult may be moved by the Doom Diver up to 4″ which is the Goblin 's normal move . |
| 13 | West Coast up to date . |
| 14 | SINCE ITS inception , CCG 's Provinces Division has grown to over two dozen contracts in just 18 months , reaching from Bournemouth to Folkestone on the south coast up to Birmingham and the South Midlands . |
| 15 | Nae way are we doing it now when we we 've got the scaffolding up to gan up . |
| 16 | Some agreement was reached over controlling the import of arms , the drawing up of buffer zones and the release of prisoners and hostages . |
| 17 | Whatever the public disclaimers of those in authority , many of the mechanisms set up by the ERA seem to teachers to be specifically designed to reduce themselves as professional people to the status of paid servants , to leave them as little margin for discretion as possible and therefore to reduce ‘ curriculum management ’ to technical trivia : the drawing up of timetables and the efficient disbursement of limited resources . |
| 18 | The DET also plays a leading role in the drawing up of syllabuses and work programmes , the setting and marking of exams , and the approval of textbooks and other materials . |
| 19 | Because he was literate , it was he who helped with the drawing up of wills or testaments , and , in more recent times , it was he who wrote references or testimonials and signed applications for passports . |
| 20 | The context for the drawing up of plans and the management of on-going change proved quite different . |
| 21 | The only other sighting we 've had was a farm worker who thought he saw the car up towards Cumbermound about nine . |
| 22 | ‘ I have my house and my car up for sale to help pay for costs when I 'm over there . |
| 23 | Your policy entitles you to have the use of a hired saloon car up to 1600cc from our authorised suppliers depot , subject to availability , if your car is off the road due to damage or theft insured under this policy . |
| 24 | Well , he , no Fen road then , you see , he ai n't , could n't get his car , used to leave his car up near Frank on the , on the road , hard road , you see . |
| 25 | An obvious benefit of having the video machine under your control is that sections you can break a programme up into sections and guide your learners through it one section at a time . |
| 26 | Labour does n't seem to have made its mind up on PEPs . |
| 27 | ‘ 'E 's 'orrible ! ’ gasped Victoria , making her mind up about Uncle Philip in a rush . |
| 28 | But she took tea up to Jonathon and Aunt Margaret showed her how to trap the heat in the cup by putting the saucer on top . |
| 29 | The glitzy building — boasting an address on Bishopsgate , now one of the City 's favoured streets — was opened just three years ago but became an obvious target once the bank needed to put the family silver up for auction to improve its financial standing . |
| 30 | A large Emmenthal wheel may weight up to 80kg/200lb . |