Example sentences of "[noun sg] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 D'Angelo also relates the example of corporate America waking up to the belated realisation that what has become known as ‘ the pink economy ’ represents significant purchasing power .
2 The S3 graphics co-processor and its associated chipset is justly acknowledged to be more than useful for speeding up Windows graphics , offloading much of the graphics work from the CPU as it does , and the speed up with a variety of tasks under Windows and applications is very noticeable .
3 The reasons towards this sh erm the reason why that you had the rise in er absolute egalitarianism was that the Communist Party thought that they 'd be able to keep the speed up for the process of land reform .
4 The Doctor cast a dark glance up at the innocently circling drone .
5 Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds .
6 He wants to come in , but a glance up to the bridge tells me he expects a vast crowd to appear out of nowhere , the minute he strips naked .
7 One thin , ring-studded hand held the skirt up at the front but the back went trail , trail , trail on the ground , sweeping up wisps of hay with the feathers .
8 She felt him flip the short skirt up at the back , and jerk her knickers down to her knees .
9 He drove about in a horse and cart and one of his tricks was to whip the horse up into a canter and crouch down behind the seat so people would think it had bolted .
10 Terry Venables was left picking his side up off the floor .
11 The world 's No. 1 batsman , according to the ratings , was two days into his 40th year , and had once again set his side up for a further victory to help blot out the misery of 1987–89 .
12 Turn on to a side for the next quarter , then the other side and breast side up for the final cooking time , removing the foil .
13 The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge .
14 Taylor wants everyone to be sunny side up after the World Cup qualifier to make up for the fact that no English club sides are left in Europe and give everyone — players and fans — a lift .
15 One important difference between eurocheques and ordinary cheques is that each eurocheque is guaranteed by your eurocheque card up to the approximate currency equivalent of £100 .
16 Robins picked a piece up off the beach .
17 Why I 'm yes that that might be a bit more complicated because that means we 've got to get a thousand a thousand reject up to a thousand reject ball bearings which are all the same .
18 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 .
19 He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’
20 Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time .
21 I make his bed once a week to give it a good puff up in the sheets .
22 When you have received an Offer of Mortgage , to enable a bid up to a maximum agreed limit , a further visit to the property should be made near to the date of Auction , to ensure that everything is in order .
23 ‘ We have taken £5,000 in advance bookings for the movie up to the end of the December . ’
24 Twenty five pound up on the train , return !
25 But the Chancellor may be looking and hoping further ahead , to Friday 's US employment report and the possibility that a bit of a dollar rebound might haul the pound up against the mark .
26 A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield .
27 To overcome this difficulty , the Company built a tunnel and extended the footpath between the canal and the Company 's fence up to the foot of the new canal bridge , and built some steps up to Stratford Road opposite the then new station .
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29 He is unlikely to have supervised personally the drawing up of every document — he had staff for that — but he did have the duty of dating the solemn privileges which were issued .
30 One of the main starting points is therefore the drawing up of a time-plan dependent on the consultative structure to be used .
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