Example sentences of "up [prep] the [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 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 9 | In order to build up for the trip to Orrell , Cusworth is omitted from the Leicester side to face Coventry at home this weekend . |
| 10 | High expectations are set up for the client to gradually learn to achieve deep feelings of heaviness and relaxation throughout the body . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He used to bring his tools up during the war to er to er so be seen to you know . |
| 13 | Eventually we met up below the entrance to the Kitchen . |
| 14 | The mul , and the Duchess of York will become a multi-millionairess , in her own right , as a result of the break up of the marriage to Andrew we can reveal today . |
| 15 | Joey Dunlop is second in the Roadracing Ireland Open Championship and would appear to have it wrapped up following the injury to the championship leader , Derek Young , at Kirkistown last Saturday . |
| 16 | he had to share a bathroom with the four other tenants on the floor , and the room itself consisted of little more than a single bed pushed up against the wall to one side of the room , a wood-wormed wardrobe and a single gas ring for cooking . |
| 17 | A pile of dark plastic sacks were piled up against the wall to one side . |
| 18 | A new cult established itself over twenty years , its shrine being the domed town of the Keepers , which was built up against the entrance to caverns . |
| 19 | He let his hands travel up beneath the chemise to her breasts , which he had so often coveted , and handled them boldly . |
| 20 | . The letters of all good soldiers show that the military duties of the soldier and his good military bearing are indivisibly bound up with the loyalty to the Führer and thus with a genuine National Socialist attitude in general … |
| 21 | In The Hitch-hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy the author , Douglas Adams , describes a planet inhabited by a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings who build a hyperintelligent computer to help them come up with the answer to Life , the Universe and Everything . |
| 22 | The Royal Mail 's come up with the answer to a sticky problem . |
| 23 | THE switchboard of The Northern was jammed yesterday morning with people phoning up with the answer to Saturday 's Stiff Little Fingers competition . |
| 24 | Faxfinders — the first Barlaston admin. circle to make a presentation — came up with the solution to the complex problem after months of hard work . |
| 25 | When they arrived at the barn , he led her silently by the hand , through the living-room , and then up along the gallery to his bedroom . |
| 26 | It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments . |
| 27 | You mentioned already er over a hundred thousand people have been er displaced by the fighting , and we were able to visit some of these up in the north to , er watch the Cambodian Red Cross hand out some er aid from Oxfam and other agencies . |
| 28 | Mr Hollings confirmed that Dowding was holding on to its 8.7pc stake in T&C , built up in the run-up to and during the launch of the takeover bid . |
| 29 | Anyhow we was supposed to , they set a field kitchen up in the farmyard to , as part of the exercise , to feed us er and er they handed out some meat pies , you know , we just had one ta oh taste and well |
| 30 | Exactly what extent they could be taken up in the period to ninety six , is not necessarily erm clear because we we do n't know exactly when those are going to be taken up . |