Example sentences of "up [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 2 | Time after time I used to land up off the stage in tears . |
| 3 | The direction of the campaign moved towards a broader ‘ popular front ’ to be drawn up between the left in Britain , France and the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | In a month or so , when the camera crews have left South-Central Los Angeles and weeds begin to poke their way up through the tarmac in the burned-out lots , it will be easy enough to see who was just talking and who had a genuine plan . |
| 5 | Sometimes , small lava fountains play in the centre , and these reveal just how completely liquid lava can be , as it splashes and sloshes round the base of the fountain ; at other times , small jets of gas blow up through the lava in fiery gouts , churning up the lake into glowing whorls and currents of molten rock . |
| 6 | Rise straight back up through the strength in your thighs . |
| 7 | As the day wore on they heard everywhere around them the rill of running water , and grass began to poke up through the snow in clumps . |
| 8 | Her favourite Isabella ( later demoted to ‘ Lady in a Turban ’ ) was snapped up for the museum in 1896 , a few weeks before one of Berenson 's best finds , a Rembrandt self-portrait . |
| 9 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 10 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 11 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 12 | In this case , subsistence requirements could still be met from cotton income , but as there appears to be no clearly demonstrated link between cash crop promotion and improvements in food crops to make up for the shortfall in the cropping area that results from giving over the land to cash crops , the issue of food security must be raised . |
| 13 | What is lined up for the quincentennial in 1992 ? |
| 14 | The government has a list of long-promised infrastructure projects that could make up for the fall in private investment , though a bitter dispute in progress between the government and foreign banks that have lent 20 billion baht ( $187m ) for an elevated motorway in Bangkok may make finance for future projects harder to come by . |
| 15 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 16 | Rex Mundi , Lazlo Woodbine and the two-headed offspring of a popular show-biz couple put up for the night in a room above the Tomorrowman Tavern . |
| 17 | Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin . |
| 18 | Barbel 's the only woman among thirty competitors lining up for the start in Geneva this weekend . |
| 19 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 20 | A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but , as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients , the dieter is likely to become edgy , easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions . |
| 21 | The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn . |
| 22 | ‘ I normally drive a Volvo 343 ; it 's not a very new one , but my main criterion is to make sure I do n't end up as the jam in the sandwich when I 'm out on the motorway . ’ |
| 23 | Thirty parked cars were swallowed up as the fireball in Lochmallen Terrace , Sunderland , sent a huge plume of smoke over the city . |
| 24 | USAID , the World Food Programme , and the UN have funded food donations to the army-controlled model villages set up after the uprising in the highlands in the early 1980s . |
| 25 | The KANU policy review failed to address demands for wide-ranging political reform , although it had been set up after the rioting in July 1990 in the wake of a growing campaign by pro-democracy supporters [ p. 37603 ] . |
| 26 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 27 | Dave 's party headed up towards the Rohtang in a fleet of hired Morris Oxford taxis . |
| 28 | He did not look up towards the guard in the watch-tower . |
| 29 | It was not until the setting up of the trust in 1977 ( it was conceived at an Irish dinner party at Clandeboye House in County Down ) that money for such projects came into reach and the banks would even listen . |
| 30 | From its inception in 1983 to the winding up of the programme in 1987 the government through the Training Agency ( formerly the Manpower Services Commission ) will have committed close on 1 billion to TVEI . |