Example sentences of "up [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cover up off the floor please so I can get near the back door ? |
| 2 | An old woman gutting hens told him , ‘ That 's the lass took Marion Aluinn , bad cess to her , up off the shore yesterday ! |
| 3 | He moved up through the system rapidly enough to make his mark without looking flashy . |
| 4 | From it , the look-out man would send a smoke signal up through the chimney whenever a whale was offshore , and the fishermen would then take to their horrifyingly flimsy boats . |
| 5 | Graceful spikes of lords-and-ladies pushed up through the earth below white-blossomed blackthorn . |
| 6 | After the last stitch of the row , bring the needle up through the stitch above . |
| 7 | To work vertical lines , begin at the top and after each stitch , bring the needle up through the stitch below for the following one . |
| 8 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |
| 9 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |
| 10 | Sotheby 's will be hoping that their clients ' wallets have not been laid up for the winter together with their yachts . |
| 11 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 12 | If you live too far away to drive up for the day why not go for an extended weekend ? |
| 13 | The event , which is set for Sunday May 6th has extra significance this year , as it coincides with the 20th anniversary of the United States ' twentieth tactical fighter wing being based in Oxfordshire , and master sergeant Bill Fonten is predicting even more crowds will turn up for the day when the U S base throws open its doors . |
| 14 | I 'm all packed up for the shoot tomorrow … the second last for this year — then 2 more in January & into the salmon season on Jan. 15 th ! & so the year 's round etc . |
| 15 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 16 | There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent . |
| 17 | Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday . |
| 18 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 19 | Legal contracts drawn up for the appeal also guarantee that all the money , which now stands at £270,000 , must be spent on the unit . |
| 20 | Other critics who could not get worked up about the play also admired the acting . |
| 21 | While the symbols of civilization processed with full panoply of State through the streets of London , out on the eastern marshes the North Sea nudged at the coastal defences which had been hastily shored up after the calamity just four months before . |
| 22 | They are spurred by a marked sense of vocation : they are of the generation which grew up after the war when pollution came to be popularly identified as a serious problem needing urgent attention . |
| 23 | You can not feel the elastic around your ankles when you are falling , just the rushing of the wind past your face , then suddenly the elastic goes tight and you go shooting up towards the platform again . |
| 24 | But if they were taut , they would have acted as a small trampoline , bouncing the hammer up towards the string again . |
| 25 | ‘ So what you ended up with was a shot of the Thal looking up , followed by a cut to a low angle close up of the trough where , by pumping up the rubber ring , the body of the monster was made to rise out of the water . |
| 26 | Which is actually in Chislehurst , I think it 's up near The Bull somewhere . |
| 27 | If anyones around leeds at the time the two pubs I would suggest going to watch it are The Pack horse in town ( where they put it on in a private room upstairs for our convenience ) or the Fav up near the Uni where they have about 20 screens and away fans get regularly beat up ! ! ! ! |
| 28 | It is a decision to make a commitment not to bring the offence up against the individual any longer , a commitment not to hold it against the person , to separate the sin from the sinner . |
| 29 | After turning the sausages and prodding the briquettes again he rested his arms on the railing and looked out over Central Park , his eyes screwed up against the sun even though he was wearing a pair of prescription sunglasses . |
| 30 | The girls , elbows propping up against the wall behind , hips thrust forward , blew them two almost toothless smirks as the windscreen wipers cut a valiant swathe through the dried spittle . |