Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere . |
| 2 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hence errors at a variety of levels ( from the interchanging of elements of adjacent words up to the abandoning of whole sentences ) are inevitable . |
| 6 | Similarly , while a pupil with this type of visual condition might be able to read words up on the blackboard with little difficulty , locating the words themselves could be an initial problem . |
| 7 | Look these words up in the Oxford English Dictionary ( complete version , not the compact or shorter version ) ; in Brewer 's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature ; in the Encyclopedia Brittanica ; and in whichever other relevant reference sources are available to you . |
| 8 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 9 | I , at seventeen , heard the heaviness in his lungs as he sighed , the heaviness in his voice as he fetched those few reluctant words up from the depths inside himself . |
| 10 | I remember that when I had my first Meccano set , Dad made a simple hoist which was clamped to the table , a pulley was fixed to a hook above the mirror and my Teddy Bear used to go on trips up to the ceiling . |
| 11 | And minced the hens up with the blocks . |
| 12 | In the concert-hall , this performance would earn deserved applause , but I 'm not sure that is stands up to the scrutiny that a recording invites . |
| 13 | Woodcuts can be mounted with type , because what is to print black stands up from the surface ; so it was easy to put pictures on the same page as descriptions , and herbals and bestiaries were liberally illustrated . |
| 14 | Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She felt him flip the short skirt up at the back , and jerk her knickers down to her knees . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Terry Venables was left picking his side up off the floor . |
| 19 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For the centuries up to the Tudor times the main instrument of local government outside the boroughs was the manor court , and the best introduction to the whole subject remains Life on the English Manor by H.S. Bennett . |
| 22 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 23 | Legs up on the side , Doug looks like he is in childbirth . |
| 24 | As he did so , still lying there with his legs up on the chair he 'd fallen over , he started to over-balance to one side , towards Fergus . |
| 25 | He lifted her threadbare ratteen skirt , feeling her legs up to the knee . |
| 26 | The Doctor sat on one of the medlab 's empty diagnostic beds , and drew his legs up into the lotus position . |
| 27 | Then he shot his legs up into the sky and slid down without a splash . |
| 28 | Robins picked a piece up off the beach . |
| 29 | No rent has been paid since July but arrears up to the end of November are already the subject of a previous court order . |
| 30 | WOULD-BE MP No rent had been paid since July last year but arrears up to the end of November were already the subject of a previous court order and Mr Finnegan had arranged for his wife 's small income to be made available to cover those . |