Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It joins up with the Mill Avon . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The result , rendered into beautiful and economical English , lives up to the publisher 's claim of ‘ a new literary form ’ . |
| 4 | Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ? |
| 5 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 20 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 21 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 24 | He looks up at the class . |
| 25 | The river is broad here , about two hundred yards , and from its banks one looks up to the baroque turrets of the Benedictine monastery of Stift Göttweig , perched high on its wooded hill . |
| 26 | Fortunately , Leinster 's front five , which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald , looks up to the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks . |
| 27 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |
| 28 | The other feller looks up from the divan . |
| 29 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 30 | Once you 've got that fourth equation in from all this lot adds up to the total , and that 's the one that you seem to be forgetting , that 's the one you 've got to try and remember . |