Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , tell you what he does , he gets his back legs up on top of the wall and he does it on top . |
| 2 | UPDATE number 12 ( January 199 ) described the new certification framework which SCOTVEC has established for its awards and this issue aims to bring readers up to date on what has happened since then . |
| 3 | The first issue of UPDATE brought readers up to date with the pilot schemes which were validated to commence in 1988 under the new arrangements . |
| 4 | Erm and that means that we 're thirty four heads up on budget at the end of March erm which is g very good news . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , I do n't see why God had to put men 's heads up on top of their stupid bodies if it means they just get blown open with shells , that 's all . ’ |
| 6 | By evening she had picked her way down the cliff to the rocky ledges at the water 's edge , and was the object of interest of two seals , who popped their whiskery noses up from time to time to observe her . |
| 7 | The role of CCG 's Safety and Training Department has been to analyse the information available : clarify the requirements and keep management , staff and clients up to date on developments . |
| 8 | Leaders not only brought supporters up to date with the position of the cause but resolutions took the form of reiteration of basic commitments as well as referring to current developments . |
| 9 | She saved herself from falling further by clutching at a branch with both hands and then drawing her feet up to safety on a big branch . |
| 10 | Anyone entering from outside would only have seen Jim with his feet up in front of the fire , reading a thriller . |
| 11 | ‘ Quite honestly — and who wants to celebrate becoming twenty-six ? — I 'm really looking forward to a long soak in the bath , and then putting my feet up in front of the TV , ’ she added firmly . |
| 12 | This will require those taxpayers to bring their instalments up to date within 7 days otherwise they will lose the right to pay by instalments . |
| 13 | Boroughmuir go to Bridgehaugh without Murry Walker and Derek Stark — on duty with the Scotland seven in Hong Kong — but new British Lion , Peter Wright , lines up at tighthead in a pack which will give Stirling a testing time . |
| 14 | He and Antonio whip Claudio 's emotions up in verse with their threatened challenge , a level of seriousness from which Claudio gratefully subsides into prose for the scene in which he and Don Pedro mock Benedick ‘ the married man ’ , gulled by them into loving Beatrice . |
| 15 | Standardised scales are available for children as young as 2 years up to adulthood at 17 years 11 months . |
| 16 | WIMBLEDON have put top players Warren Barton , Robbie Earle and John Scales up for auction in a desperate bid to raise £2 million by the New Year . |
| 17 | In the absence of a ready-made framework in Scotland , the firm looked elsewhere to the English Law Society 's Continuing Professional Development scheme , launched last year and aimed at not only keeping solicitors up to date with the law but to develop management and other professional skills and to enhance career development . |
| 18 | The monitor aims to bring managers up to date with legislation and their responsibilities . |
| 19 | This helps to keep families up to date with the thinking of the school and strengthens the sense of identity . |
| 20 | The increased final dividend of 2.75p takes the total to 3.75p , from 3.5p , covered by earnings up in line to 9p . |
| 21 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 22 | By the way , I 'll be putting 50 of Hockney 's best prints up for auction at Sotheby 's at the end of June . |
| 23 | In head office , managers are responsible for keeping their teams up to date with progress on their tests in their particular areas of work . |
| 24 | Tom Conti plays Lucas Frye , a former spy , who teams up in business with a strait-laced ex-colleague Peter Duckham ( John Standing ) . |
| 25 | An Open Meeting has been arranged to enable the Council to bring governing bodies up to date on two important issues and to have joint discussion on them . |
| 26 | Just as the recession of 1980–81 was made worse by holding rates up in pursuit of a money-supply target , so today 's recession could be intensified by the pursuit of an exchange-rate target . |
| 27 | To my surprise , the newsagent seemed too afraid to speak , shaking , sweating and holding his palms up in refusal of my letter . |
| 28 | A customer magazine ‘ Dialogue ’ keeps borrowers up to date with Abbey National 's latest products and services , and offers discounts on home-related purchases . |
| 29 | Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ? |
| 30 | the sailor beginning to crack leaps up in front of the |