Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heat was making the tar bubble up between the stone flags . |
| 2 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 3 | Some time ago he had ordered that the front garden be flagged over , and now the weeds were pushing up between the paving slabs and the stones themselves had sunk in the ground at one end . |
| 4 | The funding was running down , clumps of weed had pushed up between the paving slabs , and whole layers of rendering were falling off the façades of the buildings , giving them a seedy , leprous aspect . |
| 5 | The grass sprouted up between the paving slabs and the lawn was nearly overspilling with bushes and flowers now growing wild . |
| 6 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
| 7 | Indeed , clamber up through the rhododendron bushes to one of the crests beside the Lac d'Aumar and look over , and the landscape at once turns much harder and more hostile ; you know then you are on the edge of the truly wild Pyrenees . |
| 8 | And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ? |
| 9 | the bump came right up through the table legs |
| 10 | I thread the yarns through these before they go up through the yarn guides on the mast and this prevents them from tangling together at the back of the table . |
| 11 | The water , flooding over the pastures in winter and oozing up through the summer marshes , held the key to these balanced systems . |
| 12 | HOLED UP through the summer months in a succession of Press-boxes , commodious and quaint , perky and poky , the eyes eventually glaze over , the joints seize up and the marbles get sluggish . |
| 13 | To the left is Tramezaïgues , a hamlet said because of its position on a northern slope to get no sun at all for three months in the winter and from where a very bad road leads up through the pine forests to the Hospice de Rioumajou , and one of the numerous old mule tracks into Spain . |
| 14 | She foiled their efforts by calmly walking straight up through the pine trees , her head muffled with a headscarf and flat cap , leaving Fleet Street 's finest clueless as to her identity . |
| 15 | ‘ Is everything being packed up for the removal men ? ’ |
| 16 | This was in spite of a longer mean time till exclusion or end of follow up for the adenoidectomy cases . |
| 17 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 18 | As the rest of the royals head to Balmoral tomorrow morning , Diana will pick up ten-year-old William and Harry , eight , when they break up for the Christmas holidays from Ludgrove school in Wokingham . |
| 19 | Now it was deserted , shut up for the Christmas holidays . |
| 20 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 21 | Others have just one variety , planted up for the summer months or different flowers mixed with herbs . |
| 22 | There was camps up for the tank workers |
| 23 | The following statement is the conclusion of a report drawn up for the debenture holders of the Bishop 's Castle Railway by Mr. Fraser , now the auditor of the Cambrian , in which he shows that it would pay to make this line independently of any other . |
| 24 | Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events . |
| 25 | Actors have not yet been announced , but the appealing rumour that Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder were up for the lead roles has been denied |
| 26 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 27 | ‘ And then , after the war , the newly formed High Council set themselves up as the Time Lords . ’ |
| 28 | Unbelievably , our boats were still being laid up during the winter months but with a more professional approach being adopted from topside , this policy was soon to be abandoned . |
| 29 | This convinced all but the Party members that the Communists had abandoned their previous opposition to Fascism and simply removed the core of the alliances built up during the Unity campaigns . |
| 30 | The period began with town planning elevated in the public mind by virtue of the favourable reception accorded to the various plans for city reconstruction drawn up during the war years and immediately afterwards . |