Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wail more dismal than the bird cries rose up from under the horse . |
| 2 | The electronics division of EMI was expected to continue to generate cash , initially at a higher level than the scanner operation and ending up at about the same amount . |
| 3 | The words came mumbling up from beneath the bent head . |
| 4 | What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy . |
| 5 | was picked up in in the the church family service , church . |
| 6 | Our President has referred to many of the problems we currently face and will continue to come up against in the future . |
| 7 | We have to change the definition of the word that we 've grown up with over the years , otherwise we really ca n't manage the concept . |
| 8 | But what we have to do is completely junk the definition of the word quality that we 've grown up with over the years . |
| 9 | Although he was clearly a grand gentleman — and she could sense the larger houses up and down the valley waking up to his presence like hunting dogs suddenly scenting a stag on the wind — his consideration for her — in one or two trivial matters — was nearer to the sort of decent , friendly understandings she herself had grown up with in the village . |
| 10 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 11 | Dot used to have Gloria to snuggle up to in the dark . |
| 12 | The inner ring comprised the older areas built up to around the turn of the century , which because of their high density and lack of open space required ‘ decentralizing ’ , involving 415,000 persons . |
| 13 | ‘ The cells are luxurious compared to some of the things we put up with in the Army , ’ said one staff member during a Press tour of the jail . |
| 14 | If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard . |
| 15 | But the things is , he wanted to a lot of things about came up like in the middle |
| 16 | Then in the lake an old man came up from under the water and took a great scoopful of water and drank deeply . |
| 17 | With that , Dick changed course , and in a short while they came up from behind the Shuttle . |
| 18 | The smaller number of A and C allowances was more than made up for by the greater number of B and D allowances . |
| 19 | The cost is more than made up for by the fact that virtually no man-hours are lost through strike action . |
| 20 | The out of centre position is made up for by the excellent rates Amsterdam Travel Service have specially negotiated at this hotel . |
| 21 | His limited means , however , were made up for by the passion of his yearning to collect . |
| 22 | Non-ruminants can not extract much energy from the hard parts of the plant ; however , this is more than made up for by the fact that food passes much more quickly through their guts . |
| 23 | The unpredictability of the man was more than made up for by the heady feeling of surrendering to life at its sweetest and most bright . |
| 24 | That 'll mean less business for the animal crematorium — but its owners say that 'll be more than made up for by the increasing number of people who are choosing to have their familly pets cremated . |
| 25 | A lot of the problems we meet up with in the surgery are related to difficulties people have in their lives at present or in the past . |
| 26 | If you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , read what that council has got up to over the past four years , you will appreciate fully , just as people in Hackney do , just how shameful the record is . |
| 27 | His head nodded up from among the pink clover flowers . |
| 28 | ‘ It was a Venusian lullaby , ’ the Doctor said , clambering up from behind the table and cramming his hat back on to his head . |
| 29 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
| 30 | It would , of course , be unthinkable to actually put down in print what Rex and Laura got up to during the next hour . |