Example sentences of "up [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You remember how Rosamund Coldharbour set you up for him in the matter of typing that sermon ? ’ |
| 2 | The bloke has lost all respect from me — and fuck knows have I stood up for him in the past . |
| 3 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 4 | The invasion of Panama , curiously summed up for her in the shape of Chinook helicopters , had served as a convenient diversion . |
| 5 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 6 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 7 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 8 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
| 9 | We 've got to clean this up for you for the weekend . |
| 10 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 11 | This is what enables us in historical study to bridge the gulf between the present and the past , to enter into the experience and awareness which are opened up for us in the thoughts , beliefs , practices and social customs and institutions of other times and other cultures . |
| 12 | The seven books of miracles are made up of one on the Glory of the Martyrs , another on the passion and miracles of St Julian of Brioude , four on the miracles of St Martin , and one on the Glory of the Confessors . |
| 13 | cos you get fed up of them in the end |
| 14 | When the car goes wrong , who ends up underneath it in the snow ? |
| 15 | One afternoon after tennis I was sitting on a drawing-room sofa at Bemersyde when Dawyck 's dog , a long black cocker spaniel called Wasp , came and nuzzled up against me in the most friendly manner . |
| 16 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 17 | He shook his head , leaning back slightly , watching as she drew one shapely leg up beneath her on the chair . |
| 18 | It was Rose , panting up behind her along the cinder track . |
| 19 | Very quietly , I came up behind them through the trees , and called out to them in English . |
| 20 | Ranald went up with her to the shieling , carrying a pot with charcoal burning in it . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 22 | A man caught up with her on the pavement and for a moment she stared at him blankly . |
| 23 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 24 | So what if he did n't want to spend the day cooped up with her in the bedroom , only emerging when hunger demanded that their stomachs be fed ? |
| 25 | But the writer in the Morning Chronicle , although a punctilious recorder , only alludes in his final sentence to the worst feature of such dwellings : ‘ And yet you fancy you could put up with everything but the close earthy smell , which you endeavour in vain to escape by breathing short and quickly . ’ |
| 26 | If say for instance one moved headlong down the road to European political union and Westminster ended up with something like the powers of Puddlewick District Council |
| 27 | So there 's classic sort of stories about organisation where the the er president of the organisation asks somebody to investigate something and that gets translated by the vice president into sort of rather more hostile sort of thing and basically it ends up with somebody at the bottom of the pile having their ass kicked or whatever because it 's been translated , or mis- translated down , okay ? |
| 28 | It 's very hard , I am finding it hard to keep up with them at the moment . |
| 29 | He looked by the way from the most of them , playing up with them at the games and did the up there . |
| 30 | Quelle horreur : many 's the time I have found myself torn between throwing people like him out and putting up with them for the sake of the cash-till . |