Example sentences of "up [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently no one had told McCulloch what key the rest were playing in but , technical matters aside , the whole thing was lapped up keenly by the crowd . |
| 2 | Apparently no one had told McCulloch what key the rest were playing in but , technical matters aside , the whole thing was lapped up keenly by the crowd . |
| 3 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 4 | She was able anyhow , when he suggested they take a walk around Karlovy Vary , to put her worries to one side , and give herself up wholeheartedly to the idea . |
| 5 | When government stock issues had been taken up predominantly by the triad , there had been little need for anything much in the way of a " market " ; but the change in the structure of debt ownership led inevitably to the emergence of broking and jobbing practices which were to become institutionalised into the Stock Exchange . |
| 6 | A point worthy of comment is that the settlement grew up mostly in the north-east quadrant of the main road junction ; the western boundary seems to have been along Ryknild Street , since a large cemetery was situated immediately across it . |
| 7 | Trotter backed up slowly towards the stairs . |
| 8 | As trade picked up slowly towards the end of the year , genuine Nepmen started to make their presence felt . |
| 9 | I suppose it built up slowly over the years … ’ |
| 10 | So she got up slowly from the floor , the last few sobs still springing unbidden up her throat , and without looking round at the disordered room once more , she picked up her lamp and went down to her bedroom to change . |
| 11 | She got up slowly from the table , washed up the mug , and stood for some time absolutely still , staring . |
| 12 | She sat up slowly in the bed … and immediately amended her count to three glasses ; she had spilt most the contents of the fourth down the front of her muslin pyjamas and onto the lace coverlet . |
| 13 | A jackhammer started up somewhere beyond the prison walls . |
| 14 | Where the printed story came from I do n't know , but basically it was made up somewhere along the line ; a fairy story . |
| 15 | On the train journey , it came up somewhere near the Prestonpans Power Station , but it was no use trying to mention that . ] |
| 16 | The word ‘ rescue ’ was looming up somewhere in the sentence ahead . |
| 17 | Startled , George turned his head to stare at a woman who was standing up somewhere in the middle of the tight-packed rows of the audience . |
| 18 | I used to look in there and there was the Christmas tree and the Christmas decorations and they 're always up right through the year they never took them down ! |
| 19 | and the atmosphere would warm up right through the caravan . |
| 20 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 21 | Did you did you go up right through the hill at all to get light ? |
| 22 | set that up right at the beginning which means going to the Inland Revenue |
| 23 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 24 | Because on the joist up right at the top near the side of the house , the brickwork , there 's erm I do n't well I ca n't describe them but cocoons or something like that . |
| 25 | Yeah , I would n't fill that up right at the top |
| 26 | and when I looked they did n't have it threaded up right at the top at all I had to re-thread the machine . |
| 27 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |
| 28 | Australian Ian Baker-Finch , an unknown player featuring in his first British Open , slipped up right at the start of the last day , hitting his second shot into the Swilcan Burn . |
| 29 | Well he went up right to the gate |
| 30 | He adds : ‘ We should be able to make our minds up right to the moment when we go into the booth , just like anybody else . |