Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Pushing myself up off the wet ground , I brushed the twigs and earth off my trousers while I checked my pockets . |
| 4 | End date it 's picking up off the same list . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The old Soviet armed forces should be split up between the new states , not consolidated under the flag of St Andrew . |
| 8 | and the hand does n't sneak out afterwards and starts popping out and then it 's useless , then the rest of all this stuff you just get it out of the way under the arm , it 's all gone , right , this bit comes up between the two shoulder blades , do n't make the mistake of bringing it across there , a lot of people do that , that wo n't do , you have to come round the back and between these two shoulder blades to get maximum support , you 've got to hold this elbow up and then you tie it near the hand , now I recommend that you tie it and talk to your casualty , half tie it and say is that supporting you enough ? |
| 9 | A crescendo of resentment built up between the two women , which reached its finale when Pamela lost Victoria 's precious blue rabbit , whereupon Marie gave notice . |
| 10 | Then the front door bell rang and while Rupert went to answer it a somewhat uneasy conversation started up between the two women and Everard Bone about his wife 's flu and the likelihood or not of his catching it from her . |
| 11 | A tip regarding the ribber comb : After the zig-zag row , push the comb return up between the two beds as high as it will go and , from the top , fix on two modern style bulldog clips ( 40p each ) to hold the comb firmly in position and leave both hands free to thread the wire through the comb . |
| 12 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 13 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 14 | Where others might see a more complex situation with a conceptual continuum between starvation , hunger , destitution , poverty ( want ) , and inequality , Moore abolishes poverty by dividing it up between the two extremes of the continuum , also at the same time neatly side-stepping discussion of the visible increase in begging , destitution , and homelessness in major British cities . |
| 15 | Well those that are right next to the the ones growing up between the two bedrooms . |
| 16 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By the partitions of 1772 , 1793 , and 1795 , therefore , Poland was carved up between the three powers and erased from the map . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Inside the grounds the path continued , curving up between the overgrown rhododendrons in the direction of the house . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The floorboards struck ice up through the unprotected soles of her feet . |
| 26 | Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |