Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were close enough they threw the ropes up to the men at the front of the crowd , and all of them pushed from behind . |
| 2 | I 'm stood at the tee throwing the clubs up in the air and whooping away and he just turns to me and says , ‘ Do n't get too excited , Jacky . |
| 3 | Zen held the X-rays up to the light . |
| 4 | If you were n't familiar with them , the roads up in the mountains were treacherous . |
| 5 | I was going to make the minutes up from the tape you see . |
| 6 | Sometimes , during the ritual prayer , now he had got over the early stages of wondering when to get on the floor , when to rise , and exactly how to get the fingers up to the earlobes , he found himself begging to be excused any significance in his actions . |
| 7 | And minced the hens up with the blocks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then he ducked under the lintel and climbed the steps up into the kitchen , Beth following . |
| 10 | On the steps up to the plane a group of irate Peruvians waved tickets as the embattled stewardess tried to explain that there were no seats . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were cracks in the walls and the steps up to the entrance had been reduced to an uneven and rocky slope . |
| 13 | I gave it a couple of minutes , then made for the broch and the steps up to the landing where the girls had gone yesterday . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it was I who got away to the steps up to the morning room , Francis 's sorry steps . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In both Byzantium and Islam the surface enrichment , though opposed in motivation and manner , draws the eyes up to the arches and the vaulting . |
| 18 | ( Each Vendor is liable for all the warranties up to the maximum ) . |
| 19 | It was the listeners up in the loggioni of whom the singers were most afraid : if the performance did not reach a sufficiently high standard in the opinion of the audience , the most vocal members of which were in the loggioni , they would be treated to il fichio , an outburst of whistling accompanied by the stamping of feet and sometimes a barrage of tomatoes or fruit . |
| 20 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 21 | She was wandering about the room , pulling the covers up on the bed and tidying up half-heartedly , waiting for the kettle on the gas-ring to boil . |
| 22 | In the months up to the outbreak of war a major cause of dispute was the status of non-practising Jews . |
| 23 | Most of the recruits to the senior positions were from within the industry and in the months up to the planned vesting day — 1 April 1948 — most retained their old jobs in the pre-vesting undertakings as well as carrying out their new responsibilities of planning for the change . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A van stood by to take the bottles up to the municipal bottle bank , another for the cans and a red plastic hippopotamus with its mouth wide open waited to receive the litter . |
| 27 | After breakfast , Damian picked the keys up at the desk , and they walked out into the cool sunlit morning to find the streets busy and bright . |
| 28 | Once you 've got the orientation right carefully line the pins of the chips up with the holes in the socket . |
| 29 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 30 | Why do n't they put all the leaders of all the countries up in the air |