Example sentences of "up [adv] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 2 | The advantage of this technique is that , in subsequent processing , the whole prime data track can be handled sequentially by the software , and overflow records are picked up only when the prime track has been processed . |
| 3 | The larks had not been up long when the first cars began filtering into the parks . |
| 4 | With most agents in agreement that the top end of the market has held up better than the bottom end , this widening differential between the values of prime and mass-market housing is likely to increase . |
| 5 | The girls were wired up so that the current lit up their cockades and enabled their swords to give off sparks as they fenced . |
| 6 | When this proves to be impossible , the edge of the previous day 's work should be roughed up so that the new mix will key with it . |
| 7 | Kirov had opened himself up so that the younger man would trust him enough to confide his deepest thoughts . |
| 8 | The reformers argued that since departments built up their philosophies over a period of time and since new measures took a considerable period to negotiate , these processes should be opened up so that the informed public could make its reactions clear while principles were still being settled . |
| 9 | The price used as the original price had been bumped up so that the 20 per cent off claim could be made . |
| 10 | He tipped the bottle up so that the last of the liquid flowed into his glass . |
| 11 | His godson , Harry Hubbard , is a young Agency aspirant who joins up just as the Cold War is getting hot . |
| 12 | The meeting broke up quickly as the other men in the room rose from wherever they had found to sit , some on chairs but most cross-legged on the floor , picked up weapons and equipment , and began to file out . |
| 13 | Consequently , when these innovative ideas were taken up nationally and the Residential Precinct Regulation was adopted in the traffic legislation of the Netherlands in September 1976 , great care was taken to set down minimum design requirements and special rules for conduct within a Woonerf . |
| 14 | She got back in the bed wet through , and sat up brazenly as the young girl brought the tray in . |
| 15 | Within the massiveness of the Science Museum , the Aeronautical Gallery can be found on the top floor and it was up here that the careful replanning and reshaping of the exhibits and display space took place . |
| 16 | I knew he was twisting and tugging away up there but the local had mercifully done its job . |
| 17 | Yet the dollar did not move strongly up again when the gloomier reality sank in . |
| 18 | And when the woman in the top bunk threw up again and the sour vomit splashed down on her and soaked her skirt , it was the last straw . |
| 19 | to leave if if the voluntary severance comes up again and the whole purpose of the exercise is to look to our future . |
| 20 | There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable . |
| 21 | They have also gone up faster than the national figures . |