Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere . |
| 2 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |
| 3 | Hence errors at a variety of levels ( from the interchanging of elements of adjacent words up to the abandoning of whole sentences ) are inevitable . |
| 4 | Similarly , while a pupil with this type of visual condition might be able to read words up on the blackboard with little difficulty , locating the words themselves could be an initial problem . |
| 5 | Look these words up in the Oxford English Dictionary ( complete version , not the compact or shorter version ) ; in Brewer 's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ; in the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature ; in the Encyclopedia Brittanica ; and in whichever other relevant reference sources are available to you . |
| 6 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 7 | I , at seventeen , heard the heaviness in his lungs as he sighed , the heaviness in his voice as he fetched those few reluctant words up from the depths inside himself . |
| 8 | I remember that when I had my first Meccano set , Dad made a simple hoist which was clamped to the table , a pulley was fixed to a hook above the mirror and my Teddy Bear used to go on trips up to the ceiling . |
| 9 | And minced the hens up with the blocks . |
| 10 | In the concert-hall , this performance would earn deserved applause , but I 'm not sure that is stands up to the scrutiny that a recording invites . |
| 11 | Woodcuts can be mounted with type , because what is to print black stands up from the surface ; so it was easy to put pictures on the same page as descriptions , and herbals and bestiaries were liberally illustrated . |
| 12 | For the centuries up to the Tudor times the main instrument of local government outside the boroughs was the manor court , and the best introduction to the whole subject remains Life on the English Manor by H.S. Bennett . |
| 13 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 14 | Legs up on the side , Doug looks like he is in childbirth . |
| 15 | As he did so , still lying there with his legs up on the chair he 'd fallen over , he started to over-balance to one side , towards Fergus . |
| 16 | He lifted her threadbare ratteen skirt , feeling her legs up to the knee . |
| 17 | The Doctor sat on one of the medlab 's empty diagnostic beds , and drew his legs up into the lotus position . |
| 18 | Then he shot his legs up into the sky and slid down without a splash . |
| 19 | No rent has been paid since July but arrears up to the end of November are already the subject of a previous court order . |
| 20 | WOULD-BE MP No rent had been paid since July last year but arrears up to the end of November were already the subject of a previous court order and Mr Finnegan had arranged for his wife 's small income to be made available to cover those . |
| 21 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |
| 22 | What is wrong , what is wrong with increasing the levels of education in our schools up to the quality and level of education offered by the C T C ? |
| 23 | I climbed the steps up onto the lock and knocked on the door of the lock-keeper 's house , and through great good fortune found him at home . |
| 24 | Three old mill stones serve as the steps up to the door of the mill , an aesthetically appealing alternative use for them now that they are no longer required for the purpose for which they were designed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Indeed , they said the small congregation was in favour of demolition as many members were old and infirm and could not climb the steps up to the church . |
| 28 | But Mr Tomlinson built his own bonnet , mudguards and steps up to the cab and set in louvred vents either side of the bonnet to let out the heat produced by the massive engine . |
| 29 | Again , the dual imagery of the victorious general and the holy saviour appeared : virtually everyone wore full military or party uniform , and the steps up to the basilica of Saint Barbara were lined with people carrying the palms they had bought for Palm Sunday , six weeks earlier . |
| 30 | LOU REED steps up to the counter . |