Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
| 4 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 5 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 6 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 7 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 8 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
| 9 | It is built up as it ‘ gathers up from the influences of the environment the demands which that environment makes upon the ego and which the ego can not always rise to … . ’ |
| 10 | A friendly palm flashes up from the shadows , like a pink glove . |
| 11 | The story-line and the characters may seem incredible — like beautiful Remedios who floats up into the heavens while folding the household sheets and is never seen again — but Marquez defies you to disbelieve in them . |
| 12 | Even in an age of permissiveness not every boy — girl encounter ends up between the sheets . |
| 13 | Husband and wife again particularly to plan a will so that it all ends up with the children if that is eventually what you want with no tax payable or a a a reduced amount of tax . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts . |
| 15 | We walked along a path which wound attractively through a pine forest and round a spur of the hillside to a viewpoint overlooking the lower lake , which is spanned by a narrow bridge across which a minor road leads up into the mountains . |
| 16 | An imposing wooden staircase and gallery leads up to the suites which have a bedroom and a sitting area or sitting room , a bathroom , TV and telephone . |
| 17 | STEPPING OUT The Director of SHIRLEY VALENTINE teams up with the stars of EDUCATING RITA and CABARET |
| 18 | My tongue hangs up in the leaves |
| 19 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 20 | he 's got er , it 's like a bank that goes up in the fields |
| 21 | It was a lot of work for one man , he told me , which is why the name Hugh Cruttwell always turns up on the credits of his movies . |
| 22 | Everyone , it seemed , was anxious to contribute , and ‘ Oh , the rubbish that turns up for the Dolls ' House . ’ |
| 23 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 24 | Gloucestershire wicket keeper , Jack Russell lines up behind the stumps in tomorrow 's first test . |
| 25 | With the results showing Labour ten points up on the Tories , he is statistically right . |
| 26 | A , a curtain is used to screen you off , and if it 's a very cold day we 've got infra-red heat we 've got a lamp above the he , the couch and we actually put on the infra-red heat so we warm you up first before you start , before we start so your body is feeling nice and warm and you 're feeling relaxed , we have nice music playing and it does help right , with the tension that builds up on the shoulders . |
| 27 | The Profitboss , whatever his job , builds up over the years a wide range of contacts to whom he gives assistance and with whom he exchanges information as well as completes mutually beneficial business deals . |
| 28 | There are two types of corn , the hard variety — which usually develops on the tips or top of the toes — and the soft corn that builds up between the toes . |
| 29 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 30 | Later in April Arctic skuas will arrive as the kittiwake population builds up near the shores , back from their pelagic winter wanderings , and timing their return to coincide with the arrival of shoals of immature fish which swarm in the surface layers of the sea . |