Example sentences of "[noun sg] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I make his bed once a week to give it a good puff up in the sheets . |
| 2 | In the central area of the nest site a great heap of bones and fragmentary remains of pellets had accumulated from the break up of the pellets . |
| 3 | In addition to the Patents Act 1977 , there are a number of rules dealing with details such as registration procedure , fees and the setting up of a Patents County Court in London . |
| 4 | But he wants to press on with others despite American misgivings : full implementation of UN sanctions , UN policing of the border between Serbia and Bosnia , peacekeepers for havens in Bosnia and the setting up of a war-crimes court . |
| 5 | The 90 recommendations of the inquiry included the phasing out of seclusion , better staff training and the setting up of a patients ' advocacy service . |
| 6 | The Whitney Museum is to take photography seriously : its director , David Ross , has announced the setting up of an acquisitions committee whose job will be to establish a coherent acquisitions policy , mainly by filling gaps in the present collections . |
| 7 | Reflector boards shone light up into the subjects ' faces to refine the modelling ( reflections give a certain hooded look to the eyes in the portrait here ) . |
| 8 | This will reduce soreness and ease the risk of a re-stiffening up of the joints . |
| 9 | Yeah , but I wan na buy , it 's the same size as your bedroom up to the wardrobes and up to the door . |
| 10 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 11 | During the days that followed our plans to backpack up into the hills had to be curtailed because of the weather , but to compensate there was the pleasure of watching Nathan explore the Arctic . |
| 12 | A remarkable industrial contrast can be seen between this stone-built weaving village up on the moors and Hebden Bridge in the valley below it . |
| 13 | The narrator of Farewells owns a bar in a sleepy village up in the mountains . |
| 14 | Speculation about the leadership had persisted in the run up to the elections — in which most commentators expected the Conservatives to perform disastrously . |
| 15 | Beating up cushions releases the feelings pent up in the shoulders — but such forms of catharsis are sometimes thought to be all right for Californians but not for the rest of us . |
| 16 | As he spoke , various boys in various kinds of nation costume trooped from the left and right of the stage ; at the same moment , from beneath the stage , Mahmud started to poke a second flag up through the floorboards . |
| 17 | Information technology sales doubled to £92million as a result of the CASE takeover , though it is taking time to bring profitability up to the levels elsewhere in the group . |
| 18 | In recent years there have certainly been dramatic moves to open sport up to the forces of the market . |
| 19 | He was already into the champagne and mansion bracket up in the hills and very soon began his first famous relationship , setting up home with Joan Collins . |
| 20 | The thunder of it drowned his voice as he yelled at the rodman up in the bows to hold the jib clear of the stays . |
| 21 | Let us look briefly at how government PHC services in South Africa match up to the principles mentioned above . |
| 22 | If there 's a dinner or special occasion like the installation of the Chancellor , she might be bringing wine up from the stores , overseeing the table lay-out , arranging flowers , scheming the candles and napkins . |
| 23 | Times have changed , and with the rapid disappearance of the pits and much of the heavy industry , at least one welcome side-effect has come about — the gradual cleaning up of the Valleys themselves . |
| 24 | Even if you are not a skier , it is worth taking the funicular up to the slopes just to experience the journey and to marvel at the views opening out below . |
| 25 | She rooted through the cupboards , turned her nose up at the dishes in the sink , selected tea cups and located the caddy . |
| 26 | What was a lone scumnik doing up in the habs , acting like some spy ? |
| 27 | You just have to sit there and see what happens — and what happens is , on the whole , pretty gruesome : the sweat-plastered hair ; the nightie up round the armpits ; the chipped enamel bowl full of afterbirth — and all without the soft focus of a Pethedine injection . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ It is n't the rain here that counts , it 's the rain up on the hills where the river starts . |
| 30 | At Fabian , three miles further on , a road turns off to the right up into the mountains : I shall come back to this in a moment . |