Example sentences of "up [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck . |
| 2 | However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed . |
| 3 | Inside the 13th century castle , there is a new condensing boiler — the highest efficiency system available — with a back up boiler in case of extremely cold weather . |
| 4 | There , he opened the case , took a trowel from it , and began to dig up bulb after bulb from a long flower-bed on the other side of a path near the fence . |
| 5 | On this morning however , they dallied somewhat so that each might have the off-chance of that little bit of news that other people call gossip , which the other might add to the jigsaw of seemingly useless information built up bit by bit in small minds . |
| 6 | Two teenage boys , Neil and Simon , with muscular dystrophy , immobilised now forever , propped up side by side with twig-arms disposed lightly on clean sheets and skeletal intelligent faces cocked at unnatural angles , open-mouthed , amongst the pillows . |
| 7 | A white cat and the marmalade and white lay curled up side by side in an armchair . |
| 8 | They sat up side by side in the bed , naked , listening , but Valerie no longer felt safe . |
| 9 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |
| 10 | And the job there was to pick up tray after tray of tiny little sprigs about that high in little tiny paper cardboard boxes . |
| 11 | Do n't ignore this legal obligation , otherwise you could be ordered to pull down or open up work for inspection at your expense . |
| 12 | Furthermore , he adds , the division is in a good position to drum up work in co-operation with or via its connection to BT 's facilities management firm , Syncordia , and its international network services organisation , Global Network Service . |
| 13 | Duties include preparing apparatus and setting up equipment for use in practical classes . |
| 14 | And there , sure enough , was the interior of old Jean Damiani 's soap factory with a row of moustachioed Palestinians piling up bar after bar of soap around the walls . |
| 15 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 16 | ‘ Be sure to pick up Kirsty from school at four . ’ |
| 17 | This applies where two companies have used identical or similar marks for at least five years or more in all honesty and have built up goodwill in ignorance of the use of the mark by the other company . |
| 18 | There were layers of Gaily 's patience , built up grain by grain over the years like geological strata . |
| 19 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 20 | About two minutes later Danny 's truck , with us following close behind , turned a corner and there was the slip road leading to the Motorway — only nothing was ever going to get far down that road for there were the four big trucks in Big Ben 's convoy lined up wall to wall across the road facing us . |
| 21 | Yes , the fire pumps can , can raise water up to thirty feet from the ground , erm and they , they can pick up water of course from fire hydrants , which is situated all , all , in most streets anyway . |
| 22 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 23 | Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) . |
| 24 | Here we are , dyke and dybbuk , penned up knee to knee with a gallery of blood relations . |
| 25 | Set up glass in centre of gallery , he wrote . |
| 26 | Parties to the English sea waybill are willing to give up transferability in exchange for an extra measure of security , especially against fraudulent issuances . |
| 27 | Not content with his careful appraisal of eye , he produced from his rather torn and shabby coat , a small movie camera and proceeded to set up shot after shot of a narrow-gauge narrative . |
| 28 | A winding up order in respect of the bank was made in January 1992 . |
| 29 | Campaigns to save the whales have led to the International Whaling Commission gradually lowering its quotas and many nations giving up whaling in favour of protectionist policies . |
| 30 | But Ingard did n't do that — he bought and sold to himself , setting up company after company in the group to buy properties from one another . |