Example sentences of "up [adv] [prep] the [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 | I groped for its neighbour , found it , ducked through the gap and up on to the curved deck of the treadmill . |
| 3 | She jumped the last stone , up on to the fern-covered bank . |
| 4 | Hands tugged at the German and helped him up on to the narrow ledge . |
| 5 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 6 | Her small hand grasped his , and he drew her up on to the low walkway . |
| 7 | She climbed up on to the rickety driving platform , which had been made by tying a plank across the cab . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gaily heaved and hitched himself up on to the high stool , shoving the bag of laundry between his feet once more . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There is also a highly scenic road which you can take up on to the open ski grounds and expansive prospects of Hautacam . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Swinging her boots up on to the Indian bedspread to indicate her lack of concern . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He looked up suspiciously at the northern sky , clear and tranquil . |
| 24 | Ninny , played with strength and softness by Jessica Tandy — tells her new pal a tale of two girls who grew up together in the racist Deep South of the Thirties . |
| 25 | The waiters ' spoons dig up down up down in the great trifle on the world-famous dessert trolley . |
| 26 | But , in the end , Steven did n't mind at all when discerning folk puked up all over the loathsome Lost Boys and complained of dangerous levels of heartwarming brought on by an excess of Robin Williams . |
| 27 | Sicked up all over the hideous tangerine carpet . |
| 28 | To do this , the graphite was allowed to heat up naturally without the normal flow of cooling air . |
| 29 | His filthy hands showed up starkly against the white mug he was holding . |
| 30 | It was warm , crisp , fresh and set the taste buds up nicely for the main event . |