Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 2 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 3 | GIGANTIC waves of oil 20 ft high were being whipped by gale force winds towards Europe 's finest beaches last night after a tanker broke up off the Spanish coast . |
| 4 | Pushing myself up off the wet ground , I brushed the twigs and earth off my trousers while I checked my pockets . |
| 5 | The major agreements are drawn up between a small number of tightly-controlled organisations and the outcome of their central negotiations sets guidelines and limits to the industry-wide negotiations which then subsequently take place . |
| 6 | Most prison reformers , including Howard , have emphasized that any rehabilitative effect which prison may have will derive primarily from the quality of the relationship built up between a respected member of staff and an individual prisoner . |
| 7 | However , they were very clear that a " gap " had somehow opened up between the favourable tone of established constitutional theory and the horrors of day-to-day political practice . |
| 8 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 9 | They climbed , passing up through a zebra-crossing kaleidoscope of dark and light . |
| 10 | Stay in this position for some time , then slowly sit up through a curved spine — a great way to relax ! |
| 11 | In one single movement , raise both the torso and the legs — up through a curved spine to a sitting position , grasping the ankles . |
| 12 | The sour smell from the communal rubbish bins in the alley below drifted up through a broken window and Carrie grimaced as she knocked on the door . |
| 13 | Thus , in his chapter ‘ The Elimination of Metaphysics ’ , Ayer cites a number of philosophical problems which he believes can be rapidly cleared up through a proper understanding of language . |
| 14 | Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system . |
| 15 | Beautiful white , pastel pink and blue houses nestle in the cliffs and we took the funicular railway down the cliff side to the pretty harbour at Skala for a closer view and a donkey ride back up through the twisting mountain road . |
| 16 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 17 | At the Pont d'Espagne the road ends , but you can then take a reasonably comfortable path , for about three-quarters of an hour , up through the tumbled rock and ailing pine trees — they seem to be fighting a losing battle against the colonies of grey lichen — to the Lac de Gaube , at an altitude of a trifle under 6000 feet . |
| 18 | The Cockroft Report ( 1984 ) gave a most encouraging survey of good practice and advocated an approach which can be summed up through the mnemonic SPIDER : . |
| 19 | I thought about it as I walked up through the weedy garden . |
| 20 | Compadrazgo relations are set up through the ritual sponsorship of the church system of appointing godparents for children . |
| 21 | ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . ) |
| 22 | She rode down the steep path , then up through the collapsed gate and into the area of the pinnacle of land on which the fortress had been constructed . |
| 23 | Because of a logjam in Government legislation , the bill will be set up through the private member 's procedure by the Conservative MP for Ayr , Phil Gallie . |
| 24 | A large iron drive-wheel projects high up through the front wall , providing a source of power for ancillary equipment . |
| 25 | Soon he had a strong fire going and the blue smoke pillared up through the young oak leaves . |
| 26 | It was just at this moment that the fisherman was trying to escape from the sea-king 's palace , struggling , with the golden cradle in his arms , to swim up through the great weight of sea that lay like a dome above . |
| 27 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 28 | The returning echoes are believed to be picked up through the fatty interior of the lower jaw . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that a hot layer at the core-mantle boundary , generated by convection in the mobile outer core , produces a circulating system extending up through the entire mantle ( Fig. 2.17(C) ) . |
| 30 | It had been glorious just to sit there at the huge dining table , with the sounds of the sea wafting up through the open window , feeling her exhaustion slip away from her , while the energetic Mrs Birkin set before the three of them course after delicious course . |