Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 2 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 3 | I swung my feet up on the desk and lay back in the chair . |
| 4 | Then , to quote my sister again , ‘ I took my little black kitten in my arms up to the poet to introduce it , and tall Mr Eliot bending forward to look at it remarked ‘ That 's a nice little catlet ’ ’ . |
| 5 | Probably because it 's as close as I have ever come to seeing myself and my friends up on the screen . |
| 6 | I swung my boots up onto the bed and stretched out full length . |
| 7 | they came down with a lot o little bottles and they filled all them bottles up with the mud and they took 'em away and anal analyzed 'em and proved that it was erm human manure you see . |
| 8 | It will offer direct marketing and mail programmes ; hold marketing conferences , seminars and special promotions ; provide free listings in catalogues seen by customers ; and put their products up on the HP LaserPro CD-ROM for software marketing which is delivered with every Hewlett-Packard workstation . |
| 9 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |
| 10 | By the time she had got her cases up to the guest room , made the bed up and sorted out her food supplies it was beginning to get dark and , although she had a burning desire to go up to the studio , caution prevailed . |
| 11 | The woods beyond the rectory garden consisted mainly of beech trees , very tall , as though sending their branches up to the light . |
| 12 | It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it . |
| 13 | Maura rolled her eyes up to the ceiling . |
| 14 | Taking a deep breath , and casting her eyes up to the ceiling while she slowly counted to ten , Laura decided that motherhood was a highly overrated occupation . |
| 15 | By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory . |
| 16 | He lifted her threadbare ratteen skirt , feeling her legs up to the knee . |
| 17 | Note how they sometimes walk with their tails up in the air , probably using them as a flag for signalling to others in the group when on the move through undergrowth . |
| 18 | Villa had their tails up in the second half and Atkinson and Staunton both had chances to increase their lead . |
| 19 | Paige drew her knees up inside the bag , resting her chin on them . |
| 20 | But it 's probably the sort of house where visitors feel sufficiently at ease to put their feet up on the sofa . |
| 21 | Venture capitalists like to keep close tabs on their investments , going down to the offices of the fledging chief executive officers once a week , putting their feet up on the desk and playing father confessor . |
| 22 | Miranda , in black linen shorts and halter top , lay with her feet up on the terracotta-coloured sofa , enjoying her idleness . |
| 23 | I would sit with her often for a whole hour , she with her feet up on the sofa , resting . |
| 24 | Tamsin puts her feet up on the table and asks why not . |
| 25 | The kitchen , I assume , thought Leonora , and swung her feet up on the sofa , chuckling at the ludicrously large socks . |
| 26 | In practice , most sellers of a freehold will make arrangements directly with the authority concerned , and arrange to pay their bills up to the date of completion . |
| 27 | You 're in the mood for a long spell at the crease , but the penis decides that it ca n't wait to get the game over and done with before heading back to the pavilion to put its feet up on the couch . |
| 28 | Buddy 's original band The Crickets gave Alex their thumbs up during the American tour . |
| 29 | It must line its stripes up with the lines of the bark if it is to be camouflaged . |
| 30 | She lifted her buttocks up into the air , taunting Vashinov as he saw the white sperm slide out from inside her . |