Example sentences of "up [prep] the [noun] 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 | He went on trial on Jan. 30 , 1990 , charged with the murder of six crew members of the cargo ship Lucona when it blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 , the attempted murder of six other crew members who survived , and attempted fraud . |
| 3 | After a 14-month trial , Udo Proksch , the owner of Vienna 's most famous coffee house and a former confidant of some of the country 's leading politicians , was found guilty on March 11 of the murder of six crew members of the cargo ship Lucona , which blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 . |
| 4 | The affair of the Lucona , which blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 , had led to the resignations of three leading politicians who had been close to Proksch . |
| 5 | Time after time I used to land up off the stage in tears . |
| 6 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An old boat lay half-submerged against the bank with reeds pushing up through the holes in its hull . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rise straight back up through the strength in your thighs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 15 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 16 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What is lined up for the quincentennial in 1992 ? |
| 19 | Finally , the field of comparative religion is opened up for the students in the study of the faiths of the modern world . |
| 20 | Why exactly the authorities wish to deprive so many thousand people of their bread and butter when the becak is cheap , pollution-free and makes up for the deficiencies in mass transit , is a mystery . |
| 21 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Barbel 's the only woman among thirty competitors lining up for the start in Geneva this weekend . |
| 28 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn . |