Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’ |
| 9 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 10 | The range starts at 47ft ( 14.3m ) and steps up to a staggering 110ft ( 33.5m ) . |
| 11 | Dizzily entranced by the yellow novelty , I floated free as wood smoke and fluttered around the noisy house , while my anaesthetised feet padded cement steps up to the front door . |
| 12 | There were two or three granite steps up to the front door which had a grubby ‘ Closed ’ notice hung behind its glass panel ; no bell , and no other door . |
| 13 | Besides , she was ultimately responsible to Liz for the twins ' welfare , Laura firmly reminded herself as they mounted the wide steps up to the front door of Lady Wyndham 's house . |
| 14 | But Luke was already climbing the stone steps up to the arched front door , and Folly 's question went unheard . |
| 15 | There were six steps up to the tiny stage , Gary would be playing the intro , and with each of the steps Madame would say a woman 's name , fingering one of the rings . |
| 16 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No it , I think it actually runs on the sixteenth but it only looks at premiums up to the fifteenth , think that 's built into the , the , the parameters on it . |
| 19 | But it put premiums up by a third — and that cut losses from £88 million to £39 million in the six months to June . |
| 20 | It 's just the things you poke your hairs up on a sharp stick |
| 21 | A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield . |
| 22 | The new law described the " Corsican people " as " part of the French people " ; established a regional executive council with its own powers , and provided for the drawing up of a new electoral register . |
| 23 | It also outlined a number of proposals that states might take into account in the drawing up of a global action plan at the February 1990 special session , including , among others : increased public information and education ; the possibility of a UN decade against drugs ; the establishment of a UN capability to provide training and equipment for national anti-drug forces ; relevant measures to prevent the laundering of drug monies and the establishment of a UN facility to gather information on this ; and development and technical assistance programmes aimed at strengthening local economies and legal systems against drugs . |
| 24 | One of the main starting points is therefore the drawing up of a time-plan dependent on the consultative structure to be used . |
| 25 | Much bargaining is tacit and informal , but at times it may become formalized into tripartite arrangements involving government , unions and enterprise management ; a rare example in the British context was the drawing up of the 1974 ‘ Plan for Coal ’ ( Burgi 1985 ) . |
| 26 | Instructions to the boundary commissioners were revoked and amended so that they would be able to consider economic interest as well as population and community in the drawing up of the new constituencies ; this was regarded as vital by the Unionists , for it seemed likely that the merging of the small boroughs into the county constituencies would take away the last of the agricultural seats . |
| 27 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |
| 28 | On Sunday , for the first time since the Gulf war , Iraq flew combat aircraft up to the 36th parallel in violation of UN resolutions . |
| 29 | Moreover , MacDonald was in principle in favour of an election , but unable to secure agreement upon a formula which could reconcile protectionists and free traders up to the very last moment . |
| 30 | Ivo drew the car up at the front door , she pinned her hopes , rather desperately , she owned , on one very big , important fact . |