Example sentences of "up [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Springing up microscopically on the double helices to create that most controversial of creatures — the human embryo . |
| 2 | Landowners started to complain that the bikes were chewing up their paths , raising the whole ugly debate about access up on to a new plane , and ridge-walks lost some of their grandeur by displaying fat tyre tracks on their grassy sections . |
| 3 | Frejji 's voice , making me jump , jolted my headache up on to a new level . |
| 4 | Steven cursed inwardly and had to step up on to a low wall above the height of the laser-axles to empty and fill his lungs again . |
| 5 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 6 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 7 | After the theatrics of the ridge , it 's a strange experience to emerge up on to an enormous flat plateau — a bit like climbing the ladder up to your loft and discovering it leads to an American Football stadium . |
| 8 | I groped for its neighbour , found it , ducked through the gap and up on to the curved deck of the treadmill . |
| 9 | She jumped the last stone , up on to the fern-covered bank . |
| 10 | Hands tugged at the German and helped him up on to the narrow ledge . |
| 11 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 12 | Her small hand grasped his , and he drew her up on to the low walkway . |
| 13 | She climbed up on to the rickety driving platform , which had been made by tying a plank across the cab . |
| 14 | Even when the police car was able to surge up on to the elevated section of the motorway at Chiswick , the stream of traffic moved no faster and the Jaguar continued to glow in Dexter 's headlamps . |
| 15 | Gaily heaved and hitched himself up on to the high stool , shoving the bag of laundry between his feet once more . |
| 16 | It was a fine summer morning when they left and , avoiding the roads as much as possible , made their way up on to the high muirs on the Lanarkshire/Ayrshire boundary , intending to travel direct towards Priesthill and hoping to take John Browne by surprise . |
| 17 | We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau . |
| 18 | I can not remember just what purpose had taken me up on to the top floor of the house to where the row of guest bedrooms line the corridor . |
| 19 | There is also a highly scenic road which you can take up on to the open ski grounds and expansive prospects of Hautacam . |
| 20 | Then the boat was moored and Tsu Ma was handing the girls up on to the wooden jetty , the soft rustle of their silks as they disembarked seeming , for that brief moment , to merge with the silken darkness of the night and the sweetness of their perfume . |
| 21 | Swinging her boots up on to the Indian bedspread to indicate her lack of concern . |
| 22 | He emptied his mind , he walked like an automaton up on to the green ride , seeing at the end of it the cameo of stacked meadows , segments of wood , a church tower . |
| 23 | A shallow ramp , suitable for transporting wheelbarrows , will be provided from the waste land south of the Brunstane Bowling Green up on to the old railway embankment . |
| 24 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 25 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 26 | ‘ How dare you come barging into my room without knocking ? ’ she gasped , scrambling up on to the rumpled counterpane , two hands going up to her blonde hair as she felt his gaze take a rapid inventory of her voluptuous disarray . |
| 27 | They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps . |
| 28 | Because I have it , whether it 's anything to do with my aristocratic ancestors or the fact that I was brought up properly in the old-fashioned way to respect integrity and honesty and decency . |
| 29 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 30 | He looked up suspiciously at the northern sky , clear and tranquil . |