Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as you all know , we 've got a big job on , and we 're going to have to work every hour there is to get The Hooded Owl up to the standard I know it can reach . ’ |
| 2 | Most East Anglican villages had a working windmill up to the beginning of this century , and many mills continued to grind corn until recent years . |
| 3 | The sergeant considered Jim Lancaster was going to slam the door and he prepared to thrust his right foot up against the jamb . |
| 4 | The late-fourth century rebuilding at Chedworth , with the use of stones from the nymphaeum , and associated coins up to the House of Theodosius , clearly indicates a continued occupation of the site , presumably as a small farm . |
| 5 | Organizations for linking , such as those which many LEAs provide for the primary-to-secondary move , have also done much to encourage the pooling of detailed information about the curriculum up to the age of 16 and the curriculum either in the technical or vocational context up to the age of 17 or 18 or in a tertiary college up to the age of 18 . |
| 6 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 7 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |
| 8 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 9 | Chief executive , Tim Cordy , is reported as saying that the enforced break up of the Council meant that there was no longer a " national voice for nature " . |
| 10 | However , the three-way tone section allows this to be EQ 'd out and careful setting up of the guitar and amp or PA enables the 1992-H to put out a most convincing acoustic sound . |
| 11 | This despoiled manuscript , containing the Old Testament up to the Book of Job , still preserves six large-scale pictures of biblical scenes , a decorative page of script , and forty-one initials . |
| 12 | All right the abbey is in ruins and I doubt whether that impotent old priest up at the Old Rectory has much on offer . |
| 13 | She had only seen him when she had climbed the wooden steps up to the promenade : he was out of sight of the kiosk , waiting across the road , almost hidden in the dark cave of an amusement arcade . |
| 14 | The drought persisted in eastern Australia during 1982 and the cumulative effect up to the end of January 1983 is shown in Figure 1 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On your left are dark , steep steps up through the wall into one of the greatest centres of culture in Bohemia — the Strahov Monastery and library . |
| 17 | The house stood at the junction of five roads , and with its precincts formed one side of a triangle , the second side being the pond , and the third the wide steep steps up to the churchyard . |
| 18 | The quite steep steps up to the doors took up almost half the pavement . |
| 19 | Some boys were bringing battered wooden buckets up from the well and the occasional housewife emptied the slops from the night jars out into the middle of the street . |
| 20 | Erm came and shower occasionally and if you bath , I said to him , do your mother ever , to pick a , a damp towel up off the floor , but , did you have a bath , and all , |
| 21 | As we trooped in for the service , the sun caught it and , for a moment , I had a virion of what it must have really looked like , all those years ago , when they nailed poor old JC up before the people , one bright day in palestine . |
| 22 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 23 | The Dorset industry must have continued from its Pre-conquest days up to the moment of expansion ; its potters had been supplying the army in the middle of the first century , as is evident from Waddon Hill ( Webster , 1960 , 93 , 95 ; 1965 , 142 ) . |
| 24 | In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state . |
| 25 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 26 | Even before the war ended an Education Act was passed which recognized the case for state support for free education up to the age of fourteen . |
| 27 | The word EMPTY lit up on the dispenser . |
| 28 | In the latter we learnt about gammy gear , in-fights , unprofessional ‘ promoters ’ and an obscure though mystical ceremony between band and tribal chiefs up in the hillside . |
| 29 | Do you hold a wet finger up to the wind and say that 's it or do you calculate what it is ? |
| 30 | Just bringing East German pensions up to the West German level could cost the Bonn exchequer DM6 billion ( $3.5 billion ) a year . |