Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | She believes Jack was probably rounded up off the moors by a dealer who intended to sell him to be fattened up for slaughter.He has now joined hundreds of other animals at the centre who have been rescued . |
2 | I see the way the snow is kicked up off the paws of the dogs , the way their breath explodes around their heads . |
3 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
4 | It ran up between the windows of two rooms used as bedrooms by the plaintiffs , thus allowing anyone using the staircase to see directly into the ground-floor flat . |
5 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
6 | Chain ownership , built up between the wars by the manoeuvres of the press barons ( mainly seeking economies of scale ) , remained a crucial factor . |
7 | There is a great consensus building up between the peoples of East and West as to the sort of Europe they want to see . |
8 | This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass . |
9 | Like lying on one 's back as we did in Spain when we slept out looking up between the fig-branches into the star-corridors , the great seas and oceans of stars . |
10 | Tie a cord to each bottom ring and thread it up through the rings on each tape . |
11 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
12 | The day we went , all four of us with the French students , up through the ilexes to the tower . |
13 | If you are wearing sensible shoes , it is possible to join the path up through the woods on Petřín Hill , past some of the 16 and 18C walling now made into lookout towers , with lovely views over the city . |
14 | It was a day of mixed emotions for a player who came up through the ranks at Ayresome Park . |
15 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
16 | Captain Paul Donohue says they 've got a lot of young players coming up through the ranks of the Oxford City Ice Hockey Club . |
17 | Many of today 's athletic superstars , such as Linford Christie , Colin Jackson , Roger Black , Sally Gunnell and Liz McColgan came up through the ranks of schools athletics . |
18 | There was a feeling of helpless impotence which permeated up through the ranks from GI to Supreme Command . |
19 | He looked up through the branches into the sky , waiting for her tears to pass . |
20 | The acrid , choking fumes eventually found their way up through the ventilators on the top of the hill and the height of steam motive power over one hundred trains per day passed through Blea Moor Tunnel . |
21 | She scribbled on her napkin the words , ‘ For God 's sake say something ’ , and , having folded it carefully , passed it up through the guests to the Prime Minister himself . |
22 | His lips were fiercely hot , melting every bone in Isabel 's body , despite the dawning knowledge fighting its way up through the mists of sleep still clinging to her brain . |
23 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
24 | They scrambled up through the masses of dead leaves and dripping twigs and into the field beyond . |
25 | French patriotism had been whipped Up through the antics of her revolutionary armies abroad , but the Russian Civil War had no effect of this kind . |
26 | Bodie had cut up through the rows of parked cars , swinging up onto the half ramp , and pumping two shots into the van 's front tyre . |
27 | And he scuttled monkey-like up through the rows of seats . |
28 | It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village . |
29 | Now it would be a question of building up contacts again , putting up a case which would percolate up through the echelons of power , hopefully gathering momentum and authenticity as it did so . |
30 | This walk takes you through the Whinlatter Forest and up through the trees to the top of Grisedale Pike at 2,593ft . |