Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 2 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 3 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 4 | Tony Smith 's ( non-flying ) Flying Flea lines up with the C100 below to make a pair of early private pilot machines . |
| 5 | Dan got up from the breakfast bar . |
| 6 | There was a guitar on the table , and a frilled black silk shirt hanging up behind the door . |
| 7 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 8 | Each of these in turn subdivided into separate , smaller fibrils which are themselves composed of a highly organized array of myofilaments made up of the proteins actin and myosin ( Fig. 53 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Do I have your permission to go up to the belvedere and look around ? ’ |
| 10 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 11 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 12 | Gary is eating a heaped bowl of cornflakes in the kitchen , while reading Home Computer propped up against the milk bottle and listening via the hall and two open doors to a record by UB40 playing at maximum volume on the music centre in the lounge . |
| 13 | Philippa got up from the chair she had brought into the kitchen , went to take the cloth from Lee 's lap , decided against it , and started to wipe up the insidious liquid with tissues . |
| 14 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 15 | Blood-sugar level goes up on the digestion of food . |
| 16 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 17 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 18 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 19 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 20 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 21 | He was close , his powerful , bare chest pressing up against the towelling of her robe ; she could almost feel the anger pumping around his body . |
| 22 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 23 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 24 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 25 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 26 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 27 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 28 | Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ? |
| 29 | Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors . |
| 30 | WITH ONLY 48 hours to come up with the cash , Michael Knighton 's £20m take-over bid for Manchester United is back on course following a High Court ruling that gives him leave to put together a funding package . |