Example sentences of "up [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Landowners started to complain that the bikes were chewing up their paths , raising the whole ugly debate about access up on to a new plane , and ridge-walks lost some of their grandeur by displaying fat tyre tracks on their grassy sections . |
| 2 | Frejji 's voice , making me jump , jolted my headache up on to a new level . |
| 3 | Steven cursed inwardly and had to step up on to a low wall above the height of the laser-axles to empty and fill his lungs again . |
| 4 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 5 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 6 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 7 | Peter , and hundreds like him , represent the ghastly far frontier of American urban degeneration , life and death wrapped up together in a tiny , bright-red jumpsuit . |
| 8 | The adult males have grown up together in a similar pride , left before maturity , and stayed together . |
| 9 | The globular M62 is in the same field as RR Scorpii ; it is about 26000 light-years away , and is not hard to locate , though in binoculars it shows up only as a condensed blur of light . |
| 10 | Instead , I 'm woken up gently with a strong cup of black coffee . ’ |
| 11 | I prefer crimson or deep orange rather than pillar-box red , as these colours show up better with a dark contrast colour and look more realistic . |
| 12 | Well I think there were niggling little points in all the quarries , the workforce certainly has n't been happy up in for a long time . |
| 13 | Slowly , like a black storm cloud that builds up ominously on a distant horizon , the second of the two Men who had been feeding the eagles advanced on Woil . |
| 14 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 15 | Grown up enough for a proper kiss , I wonder ? ’ |
| 16 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 17 | what 's a black arrow pointing up over with a black arrow pointing down over in a triangle ? |
| 18 | Progressive assessment relates directly to the principle of credit accumulation in that passes in individual modules are built up progressively towards a final award . |
| 19 | TWO youngsters cuddled up yesterday for a special ‘ thank you ’ to the man who gave them life . |
| 20 | As he walks away , his friend comes up still in a playful mood . |
| 21 | Prices will go up further at a 70-piece sale this June at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées . |
| 22 | Use a long , thrusting snap punch to the opponent 's face and if the chance presents itself , follow up quickly with a reverse punch . |
| 23 | This change will allow the Gallery to set itself up permanently on a proper funding basis , with the possibility of a number of options : it could move into public ownership , either national or local ; alternatively , a private sponsor might come forward and take on the entire enterprise . |
| 24 | That 's what I did when I started my furniture business , building it up gradually from a crude workshop and it took a hell of a long time . |
| 25 | She hung it up carefully on a big wooden coat hanger and began to brush hard at the dried mud . |
| 26 | Mr Lawson can dress all this up macroeconomically as a timely ‘ budget for savings ’ . |
| 27 | I am brought up sharp in a busy street , |
| 28 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 29 | As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes . |
| 30 | Purely on a psychological level , it may be that a culture such as ours that has grown up out of a Judaic-Christian background finds cremation difficult to accept . |