Example sentences of "up [prep] the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Pushing their way up through the soil with force they pierced the fallen leaves . |
| 3 | Alongside , it grew other patterns of pastoral care and supervision , based upon organization by years , with year-tutors often moving up through the school with the pupils , at least some of whom they could teach on a regular basis . |
| 4 | The horses all looked spruced up for the occasion with plaited manes , even the two disgruntled piebald ponies on which perched two identical solemn-faced small girls . |
| 5 | Irish raider General Idea warmed up for the Mackeson with a win at Punchestown yesterday . |
| 6 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 7 | He turned up for the audition with his art teacher , Rose , who he was dating at the time . |
| 8 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 9 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 10 | We lined up for the final with the usual American din coming from the stands . |
| 11 | At the time and date arranged , he meets an old friend and decides not to turn up for the meal with his niece . |
| 12 | What a cheer had gone up as the Englishman with Turtons ' file had filed the steel down to the vice before the Frenchman was one third the way through ! |
| 13 | We wake up during the night with desperate thoughts of what horrible people we are and how if others knew what we were really like they would never want to see us again . |
| 14 | Simon will take this up after the meeting with B T T and move that on forward . |
| 15 | Jack was coming straight for them , up towards the gate with Floss at his heels . |
| 16 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 17 | I think the erm breaking up of the background with his sort of mottled tones , , or whatever it is , whether it 's the background , you know th the background paper or lights , there 's lots of ways you can achieve that . |
| 18 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 19 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 20 | The younger man had hauled his older opponent from the ground and held him up against the wall with one hand while he pummelled his face with the other , and the blood covered his fist . |
| 21 | On a chair in the scullery in his cardigan and his cap and his bad leg stuck out to one side , and his tins of paint on newspapers all around , and a big panel of wood propped up against the wall with a picture on it of a battleship in a stormy sea . |
| 22 | As many as a quarter of British houses may be unable to erect a dish that can be lined up with the satellite with enough accuracy for good reception . |
| 23 | They came up with the man with the staff at last . |
| 24 | After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile . |
| 25 | The woman pulled on her cigarette , then blew the smoke away straight up into the air with an exaggerated abandonment . |
| 26 | off and up into the air with mighty shudders and wobbles . |
| 27 | Floodwater leaves sand on the planks and this sweeps up into the banks with cornices through which it is possible to step inadvertently . |
| 28 | Head up into the wind with most of the weight placed on the back foot and a low crouched position . |
| 29 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 30 | Kadan pointed , and then he started to walk up onto the road with his father . |