Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 9 | The old Soviet armed forces should be split up between the new states , not consolidated under the flag of St Andrew . |
| 10 | The end of their fearful regime left the country with the task of reconstructing the entire Greek economy and bridging the deep rifts that had opened up between the Greek people themselves . |
| 11 | Its comments follow a fresh warning by Sir Gordon Borrie , director-general of Fair Trading , that he will take action against long-term beer supply agreements set up between the big brewers and pubs leased to others . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 14 | Inside the grounds the path continued , curving up between the overgrown rhododendrons in the direction of the house . |
| 15 | For lack of alternative parties or serious candidates with known individual characters to vote for , a gulf opened up between the isolated villagers on the one hand and the Roslavl' or Smolensk Party men on the other , intent on modelling themselves strictly on Smolensk or Moscow prototypes and on Moscow 's instructions . |
| 16 | They climbed , passing up through a zebra-crossing kaleidoscope of dark and light . |
| 17 | Stay in this position for some time , then slowly sit up through a curved spine — a great way to relax ! |
| 18 | In one single movement , raise both the torso and the legs — up through a curved spine to a sitting position , grasping the ankles . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Spread out below them were Dingle Harbour and Ventry Bay , and to the west , beyond the sheer cliff of Slea Head , the Blasket Islands poked their treacherous black rocks up through a calm Atlantic . |
| 21 | Cover : pulling up through a steady 4g loop in Harry Prew-Smith 's Fouga Magister . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man . |
| 24 | The floorboards struck ice up through the unprotected soles of her feet . |
| 25 | Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Of the young players coming up through the Jamaican ranks , Walsh rates in particular the 21-year-old left-hander Robert Samuels , opening batsman Delroy Morgan , and fast bowler Joel Grant , while Jimmy Adams has already made an impressive Test debut against South Africa . |
| 30 | 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 : . |