Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If it could bring its cost-effectiveness nearer the average , it could recruit up to the establishment that the Home Secretary has recommended . ’ |
2 | From the outside , a passer-by will gaze up at the window , and all he will see is that lavender light . |
3 | Some caterpillars possess the markings of small venomous snakes and , when approached too closely , will rear up on the branch and wave their fake snake-heads at the attacker . |
4 | We 'll tie up on the island and stretch our legs a bit . |
5 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
6 | Perhaps one day there will be an advert using Biblical images , the foot-sore traveller will be seen having his feet anointed ( for which there is excellent Scriptural precedent ) and softly the music will steal up in the background — and it will be Handel 's ‘ How beautiful are the feet ’ . |
7 | I could sidle up to the hi-fi and turn it off , snap on the light-switch and announce quite calmly to all the sycophants here that Luke Denner is nothing more than a callous murderer . |
8 | Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore . |
9 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
10 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
11 | Then we sit there talking and reading , thinking we 'll catch up with the recording in a couple of days — only we never do . |
12 | Soon , they would catch up with the sun and obscure it . |
13 | It could , therefore , be the case that , in future , the TV audience will gradually catch up with the TV commercial producers ' instincts . |
14 | " We 'd better catch up with the others , had n't we ? " he said quickly , gesturing along the track . |
15 | Sport now … and as England 's cricketers ' hopes of saving the ashes go up in smoke … we 'll catch up with the women who 're hoping to restore some national pride . |
16 | so while our climbers rest and enjoy the sea air we can now catch up with the rest of the sporting action … |
17 | Bernice could n't see what he thought he would be able to do even if they did catch up with the shapechangers . |
18 | Well I do n't know , ha ha have n't you got a position where er as , as we began to , to see last week , there is this radicalization coming in but the , the er i i it 's the peasants who 've moved to the left of the Party , you 're right , that they are inappropriate to this very moderate policy of rent reduction erm a tax on collaborators land is being redistributed and is n't saying right we , i i in the same way that , that Mao was identifying the problem in in , either you , you follow the masses or you , you lead them but , but thereof we are behind them and a sense the Party has got ta recognize that , it 's got ta catch up with the masses and is n't that first paragraph saying look this is the way you should be going , that there are peasants who are redistributing the land and land reform is in effect taking place and that 's what we want to see ? |
19 | ‘ You can catch up on the reading in-flight . |
20 | You 've got a long and full life ahead of you , chum , so you must now stop worrying and go back to sleep and catch up on the strength you 'll need for living it up when you 're better . ’ |
21 | It 's J 's birthday on April 2nd & they are having a party ( at last ! ) so I 'll catch up on the news then — they are v. seldom at Gayfield St these days , so I never see them . |
22 | Even though you have checked things over thoroughly , there is always the distinct possibility that something electrical will pack up over the Christmas period . |
23 | We would line up across the parade ground , shoulder to shoulder , and in a slow forward walk , eyes fixed on the ground , would pick up any cigarette ends or pieces of paper on the gravel . |
24 | And there 's plenty of time because the moment they return they 'll all line up at the toilets . ’ |
25 | Contestants will line up at the Blundellsands Hotel , Crosby , at 8am on Sunday and will then parade through the city centre before setting off on their cross-Channel jaunt . |
26 | The first trick is to get left of the chockstone and stop in the Jacuzzi Pool , next , to pivot and line up for the exit slot which is only 2½ ft–3ft wide in a foaming pool whose diameter is only 18 ins more than a boat 's length . |
27 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
28 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
29 | Let them do what they like as long as you 're not well they do , they kill you , kill you stone dead er them French vaches Cos , see you go in down here you see , where you 've got ta jump up to get out got ta jump up off the floor , you got ta jump up about four feet to get out see , they were n't just like |
30 | Let's see how quickly you can jump up off the floor . |