Example sentences of "[adj] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably , the rational shareholder would do this up to the point at which marginal benefit was equated with marginal cost . |
| 2 | Here Dawn take this up to the children . |
| 3 | And he brought this up about the units I had and he he rang me up on the Friday night is n't it ? |
| 4 | Britain was actually given a lower standard check , on the basis that we would be using in many places our own coal , which has a quite a high sulphur content , or de-sulphurisation , we were given a lower standard , or a higher standard , or whatever it is , it was more relaxed for Britain , and that 's why I like the idea of taking this up with the M.E.D. , how it 'll happen , how it will square in his mind . |
| 5 | I 'm going to take this up with the Minister , but it 's difficult to police remote tracks . |
| 6 | I 'm still a bit confused about erm sorry I should have brought this up at the time . |
| 7 | ‘ We are just building this up at the moment , ’ Gerwyn explains , ‘ so we sell locally to shops . |
| 8 | ROBERT Priddle , under-secretary at the Department a Energy this up at the Sizewell inquiry to bare the soul of his department 's strategy . |
| 9 | Simon will take this up after the meeting with B T T and move that on forward . |
| 10 | I 'm going to cheat and look this up in the instructions . |
| 11 | I I 'm definitely going to I picked this up from the information places . |
| 12 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 13 | This was high up above the Bay , on top of the hill . |
| 14 | There , she was high up above the woods , but instead of being able to see all that was going on below for miles around , as she had expected , all she could see was — leaves ! |
| 15 | they sat inside the hut beside a fire of thin bamboo , all there was to burn for firewood this high up above the treeline . |
| 16 | Indeed , the ruined fence can still be seen running from above the top waterfall in the Gill to high up onto the side of Birk Fell . |
| 17 | The phone is high up on the wall . |
| 18 | Maggie did n't know exactly what his position was , but he was high up on the management side . |
| 19 | The body was high up on the shoal , was n't it ? |
| 20 | Corniglia is the hardest to reach as it , unlike all the others , is high up on the cliffs rather than by the sea . |
| 21 | ‘ The sea has obviously come up and washed it out of the rocks and the heavy rain has probably washed the puddles of oil from high up on the banks where the sea was n't reaching . ’ |
| 22 | This is an attractive and historic place , and very much a river town , having formed around the point where two dynamic Pyrenean torrents , the Gave d'Aspe from high up on the Col du Somport , and the Gave d'Ossau from even higher up on the ruggedly distinctive Pic du Midi d'Ossau , flow together . |
| 23 | In the wet , the broad ridge high up to the left is preferable , leading along to the conspicuous profile of Alport Castles — a huge landslip where millions of tons of shales and grits slid forward to create a spectacular feature above the hamlet of Alport . |
| 24 | The tall storeroom on the ground floor , just beyond the kitchen , stretched high up to the rafters and Helen knew it would take a sleeping gallery . |
| 25 | The red light that shines out from high up in the nave roofing indicates the position of a True Nail held in a glass reliquary at the centre of a crucifix . |
| 26 | The window of the charge room was high up in the wall , but through it Wycliffe could distinctly hear the strident voice of a woman teacher talking to her class . |
| 27 | He was high up in the syndicate , which tied him in to Truro Daine . |
| 28 | They must have been high up in the tree , leaves . |
| 29 | Er , but I mean clearly the , the debt and the guarantees are paid down first and so for the reason we are high up in the pecking order , because we provided the er , the loans and the guarantees . |
| 30 | what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them |