Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he knocks it up off the Road to about nine inches for a 4 . |
| 2 | I soon had an armful , then clambered up off the shingle to the better walking of the salt-washed turf where the burn , dividing into deep peaty runnels , cut its way to the shore . |
| 3 | By that time , many more men had arrived , swirling up through the yard to be sucked into the hall , as if it had become the quiet , humming centre of some whirlpool of power . |
| 4 | It sped through the streets of Tsimshatsui , then up through the tunnel to Hong Kong island itself . |
| 5 | The retired GP , aged 73 , who lives in the Spinney , Middleton St George , worked his way up through the order to the post of county surgeon for County Durham . |
| 6 | He cut up through the forest to where he 'd left the shotguns and followed the treeline round to the left until he hit a shallow ravine almost opposite the cabin . |
| 7 | The track then goes up through the forest to the crest of the hill . |
| 8 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 9 | The pilot therefore set the aircraft up for a diversion to the nearest suitable airfield — RAF Wittering — using residual engine power . |
| 10 | Whoever wrote the lyrics to that should be locked up for an affront to the English language . |
| 11 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 12 | In order to build up for the trip to Orrell , Cusworth is omitted from the Leicester side to face Coventry at home this weekend . |
| 13 | High expectations are set up for the client to gradually learn to achieve deep feelings of heaviness and relaxation throughout the body . |
| 14 | We paraded the following night as it was getting dark , the parade ground lit up by flaming torches with four tanks lined up as a backdrop to our ceremony . |
| 15 | Maggie reckons her family should be help up as a warning to everyone who has never got round to it . |
| 16 | Mr Recorder Paul Worsley adjourned the case until Friday for social inquiry reports to be prepared because he was considering locking Largue up as a warning to other young drivers . |
| 17 | The Tigers boycotted elections in November last year for the North-Eastern Provincial Council , the new body set up as a compromise to demands for self-rule , saying that it did not fulfil the aspirations of the Tamil people . |
| 18 | But he emphasised that he would not put himself up as a challenger to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | He went up as a commoner to Wadham College , Oxford , in 1858 , and took fourth-class honours in law and modern history in 1862 . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived . |
| 21 | In Sweden employers ' associations were set up as a counter-mobilisation to the growing organisational strength and apparent centralisation of the trade union movement . |
| 22 | And I 'm not setting that up as a record to be broken or a |
| 23 | The UK system is being put up as a model to the International council of Chemical Industry Associations . |
| 24 | In 1873 a new lime works was established at Halling followed in 1878 by a cement works known as Halling Manor Lime and Cement Works which was set up as an addition to those already operated by Hilton , Anderson and Company at Upnor and Faversham . |
| 25 | Earlier , on April 11 , the UN Council for Namibia , set up as an alternative to South Africa 's illegal rule , holding its first meeting on Namibian soil , voted to dissolve itself and to hand over its assets to the government . |
| 26 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 27 | Its experience and its entire organisation and operation are frequently held up as an example to the rest of the world . |
| 28 | I think we must have both picked it up during a visit to some relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 29 | It appears that Geordie , the Newcastle chap who cheered things up during the trip to the beach last week , by being the first to run naked into the sea , was badly wounded when his jeep ran over a mine and the driver was killed . |
| 30 | He used to bring his tools up during the war to er to er so be seen to you know . |