Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he knocks it up off the Road to about nine inches for a 4 . |
| 2 | There rose , and she looked and looked with her needles suspended , there curled up off the floor of the mind , rose from the lake of one 's being , a mist , a bride to meet her lover . |
| 3 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 4 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 5 | Terry Venables was left picking his players up off the floor after Tranmere , who have not lost at Prenton Park in 12 months , achieved a worthy draw against their lofty visitors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He went on trial on Jan. 30 , 1990 , charged with the murder of six crew members of the cargo ship Lucona when it blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 , the attempted murder of six other crew members who survived , and attempted fraud . |
| 8 | After a 14-month trial , Udo Proksch , the owner of Vienna 's most famous coffee house and a former confidant of some of the country 's leading politicians , was found guilty on March 11 of the murder of six crew members of the cargo ship Lucona , which blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 . |
| 9 | The affair of the Lucona , which blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 , had led to the resignations of three leading politicians who had been close to Proksch . |
| 10 | As the plastic is flat then it has to be lifted up off the base of the tank . |
| 11 | I see the way the snow is kicked up off the paws of the dogs , the way their breath explodes around their heads . |
| 12 | Time after time I used to land up off the stage in tears . |
| 13 | Louis looked as though he 'd just got up off the ground after being knocked out in a fight . |
| 14 | A French galley will pick her up off the coast of the Forth and take her out to the sea where other ships are waiting to escort her back to France . |
| 15 | A luxury cabin cruiser blew up off the coast of Italy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sometimes you can let the meeting carry on by itself — you do n't have to bob up between every item on the programme . |
| 18 | We have now had in this country in the post war years six or seven ‘ contracts ’ drawn up between the triumvirate of the corporate state . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A major row now blew up between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of the Environment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Both the agreements and the plans drawn up between the King of Scotia and the Normans at the start of the winter began to be implemented , and the camp at Scone became empty . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Chain ownership , built up between the wars by the manoeuvres of the press barons ( mainly seeking economies of scale ) , remained a crucial factor . |
| 25 | We even had a hot line set up between the reception at London Weekend and Number 10 , and a call did come through , but thankfully it was after we 'd done the show , when she was having a drink in the hospitality room . |
| 26 | The direction of the campaign moved towards a broader ‘ popular front ’ to be drawn up between the left in Britain , France and the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | There is a great consensus building up between the peoples of East and West as to the sort of Europe they want to see . |
| 28 | This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |