Example sentences of "up [conj] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the top of the instrument panel are amber oil and fuel low-pressure lights and the left-to-right mechanical flap indicator ( there are five quaintly-named setting , full flap on the left , landing , take-off , climb and up or cruise at the right ) . |
| 2 | Do not forget that you live alone and there may not be anyone there to pick you up or ring for the doctor if you break a leg or a hip . |
| 3 | The clue is , of course , that if Archer 's coat was powder-stained his killer must have been someone known to him who could get up that close in the deserted night street where he met his end . |
| 4 | They thought they 'd have the Mexican wave when someone go get , get up and go to the loo ! |
| 5 | After blunting two ice-screws I give up and go for the peg . |
| 6 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 7 | We just give up and go through the motions and we let our negativity harden inside us . |
| 8 | but here we , we never go up and go in the general by the |
| 9 | Then get your mask up and get into the Accident Unit ! |
| 10 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 11 | On the other hand , you can have something like the gang of four in China that creates such tensions and anxieties in the society and so many people get to feel that things have gone from bad to worse , that you get a shake up and change in the regime . |
| 12 | The other woman , whom she described as a man-hater , made her get up and come to the lavatories and once inside shouted vehemently , ‘ Do n't you ever do that again , if those men see you crying they 'll walk all over you ’ . |
| 13 | I 'd sit out in my car , all made up and wait for the stage doorkeeper to come and fetch me . ’ |
| 14 | But grypesh do much the same as we do : they hole up and wait for the weather to pass . ’ |
| 15 | He could evangelise us disguised as a doctor who wants us to rest our bodies , an environmentalist who wants us to slow down , or as a psychiatrist telling us we will be less neurotic if we put our feet up and listen to the bird song for one day a week . |
| 16 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 17 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 18 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 19 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 20 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 21 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 22 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 23 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 24 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 25 | Relax forwards , then straighten up and repeat to the other side . |
| 26 | Good flowering is dependent on temperature , the ideal being between 20 and 25°C but if growing conditions are too favourable when the flowering takes place , essential nutrients rush up to the tips , not to the clusters , wood growth takes precedence and the barely formed seeds dry up and fall to the ground . |
| 27 | " Social types rise up and die within the space of a few years , or a few months " , declared Nizan . |
| 28 | Only then did he zip himself up and reach for the telephone . |
| 29 | I shift this extraordinary document across to the stack of papers I have read , then get up and walk about the room . |
| 30 | It 's too cold to sit around for long , so I get up and walk onto the bridge . |