Example sentences of "up [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently no one had told McCulloch what key the rest were playing in but , technical matters aside , the whole thing was lapped up keenly by the crowd . |
| 2 | Apparently no one had told McCulloch what key the rest were playing in but , technical matters aside , the whole thing was lapped up keenly by the crowd . |
| 3 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 4 | Cassowary lumbered up on to a branch and began to squawk , screwing his eyes tight shut , the better to appreciate his own performance . |
| 5 | She lifted a leg up on to a pile of old beer crates , leaving Charlie faced with an expanse of bare pink thigh . |
| 6 | Follow this , keeping edge of wood on left and take next left fork which runs up on to a shoulder where another path joins from left and then ascends shoulder steeply ( f ) . |
| 7 | A whinchat perched , first atop a tussock — ‘ Tic , tic , tic , tu-tic ’ — then it flew up on to a boulder to continue its scolding . |
| 8 | In a moment , they were far enough out that they could see miles down the rocky shoreline … and they could see the other boaters scrambling up on to a piece of rock . |
| 9 | In less dramatic contexts , for de-clawed cats kept indoors ( and robbed of all outdoor pleasures ) , even the simple act of climbing up on to a chair or a window-ledge may prove hazardous . |
| 10 | Then spring up on to a bench . |
| 11 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 12 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 13 | I climbed up on to a bank to see . |
| 14 | One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top . |
| 15 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 16 | Seeing the Man approach Creggan pulled away and with one final lunge of his beak at the flesh hopped back and up on to the branch across his cage . |
| 17 | But such was the power of those two softly spoken words that Ronni found her head jerking up to look at the speaker , barely aware of her brother 's muttered response as he hoisted her cases up on to the jetty . |
| 18 | I can accept that the body might have been carried high up on to the shoal by an exceptionally heavy wash from a boat . |
| 19 | This time I at least got past the lochan and up on to the boulder field that leads to the window . |
| 20 | Grandson Richard had quite long hair , which also helped when it was time to climb up on to the shoulder . |
| 21 | He leapt up on to the ledge of rock which ran around the whole island under the overhang like some inside-out cloister , and tied us up . |
| 22 | Being the dead of night , the man was uncertain of how to leave the railway and at Rothley he walked up on to the platform . |
| 23 | He climbed up on to the platform . |
| 24 | They went up on to the platform , and took a quick look into the Porter 's room . |
| 25 | They went up on to the cliff road , then turned inland , driving between wooded banks . |
| 26 | The wearing of Highland dress , the speaking of Erse , the weather — ; his observations begin with the commonplace and are taken by his mind up on to the plateau of thought . |
| 27 | But a thump at the door made her scramble back up on to the bed for safety . |
| 28 | Ellwood shrugged and swung up on to the bed , his shoulders against the headboard , his boots on the counterpane . |
| 29 | We were in the sports hall and she flew right up on to the top of the climbing frame at the far end from where I was giving my little lecture . |
| 30 | And er they were still whistling and calling , so I went up on to the top of the bank and they it was this plantation that fell down in the warren and caught fire . |