Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It joins up with the Mill Avon . ’ |
2 | The Way actually joins up with the Cotswold Way at this point if you fancy a more epic walk . |
3 | It has a better gearbox , an engine that is simply in a different class and actually lives up to the promise made by its sleek shape . |
4 | The result , rendered into beautiful and economical English , lives up to the publisher 's claim of ‘ a new literary form ’ . |
5 | Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ? |
6 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
7 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
8 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
9 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
10 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
11 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
12 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
13 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
14 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
15 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
16 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
17 | He stands up with the assistance of the therapist : he may do his trousers up while the therapist makes sure he remains properly aligned and upright , or the therapist may fasten the trousers while the patient concentrates on standing and balancing . |
18 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
19 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
20 | First one child sidles up to the teacher with some trinket to show in order to allow the warm , cheerful voice of teacher questioning and encouraging to wash over the beginning of their school day ; then another , more venturesome , rushes into the teacher 's arms , with breathless news to convey ; and finally a third arrives preoccupied with the task in hand and refers inadvertently to teacher as ‘ mum ’ . |
21 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
22 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
23 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
24 | And , you know , I get stuff which comes at me and I pass on to someone else and gradually the process goes until it finishes up in the wastepaper bin , and usually they 're the ones which are the longest which do n't get read . |
25 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
26 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
27 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
28 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
29 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
30 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |