Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 2 | The old Soviet armed forces should be split up between the new states , not consolidated under the flag of St Andrew . |
| 3 | A crescendo of resentment built up between the two women , which reached its finale when Pamela lost Victoria 's precious blue rabbit , whereupon Marie gave notice . |
| 4 | Then the front door bell rang and while Rupert went to answer it a somewhat uneasy conversation started up between the two women and Everard Bone about his wife 's flu and the likelihood or not of his catching it from her . |
| 5 | A tip regarding the ribber comb : After the zig-zag row , push the comb return up between the two beds as high as it will go and , from the top , fix on two modern style bulldog clips ( 40p each ) to hold the comb firmly in position and leave both hands free to thread the wire through the comb . |
| 6 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 7 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 8 | Where others might see a more complex situation with a conceptual continuum between starvation , hunger , destitution , poverty ( want ) , and inequality , Moore abolishes poverty by dividing it up between the two extremes of the continuum , also at the same time neatly side-stepping discussion of the visible increase in begging , destitution , and homelessness in major British cities . |
| 9 | Well those that are right next to the the ones growing up between the two bedrooms . |
| 10 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 11 | Its comments follow a fresh warning by Sir Gordon Borrie , director-general of Fair Trading , that he will take action against long-term beer supply agreements set up between the big brewers and pubs leased to others . |
| 12 | By the partitions of 1772 , 1793 , and 1795 , therefore , Poland was carved up between the three powers and erased from the map . |
| 13 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 14 | Inside the grounds the path continued , curving up between the overgrown rhododendrons in the direction of the house . |
| 15 | For lack of alternative parties or serious candidates with known individual characters to vote for , a gulf opened up between the isolated villagers on the one hand and the Roslavl' or Smolensk Party men on the other , intent on modelling themselves strictly on Smolensk or Moscow prototypes and on Moscow 's instructions . |
| 16 | There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man . |
| 17 | The floorboards struck ice up through the unprotected soles of her feet . |
| 18 | Of the young players coming up through the Jamaican ranks , Walsh rates in particular the 21-year-old left-hander Robert Samuels , opening batsman Delroy Morgan , and fast bowler Joel Grant , while Jimmy Adams has already made an impressive Test debut against South Africa . |
| 19 | Even the concrete floor had cracked with age and clusters of weeds had grown up through the uneven apertures . |
| 20 | Beyond the houses the lane became a rough track crossing a bridge towards the forestry development , climbing up through the young trees of the forestry and out on to open country towards the summit of Shunner Fell , where , after much bog-trotting and splashing about , we hit the line of ash palings that had been laid down here to stop further erosion of the Pennine Way but which had very largely sunk into the bog . |
| 21 | or chug to Oxford or Shakespeare 's Stratford up through the Chiltern hills , visit Stoke Breurne Waterways Museum and if you 're feeling really brave you could tackle the two mile long Blisworth Tunnel . |
| 22 | ‘ What if this tree gets hit by lightning ? ’ she asked , peering up and up through the twisted branches . |
| 23 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 24 | That day the bones of the brother of my mother who went to the bottom of the sea will rise up through the green waters , and when they meet the air they will take on his flesh again , and he will swim far up into the endless air and he will meet the old man , free of his dust walking in the air , and my mother flying , and me flying , and I will be laughing . |
| 25 | I lay back and stared up through the intricate branches into the sky . |
| 26 | old friends walk up through the wild streets |
| 27 | Signor Ugolotti led the way up through the dense woods . |
| 28 | The occasional burst of singing wafts up through the yellow leaves , mixed with the mouldy astringent smell of rotting apples . |
| 29 | This resolution was taken up through the United Nations , and the declaration of 1968 as the ‘ International Year of Human Rights ’ provided the impetus to take up the question of human rights in armed conflicts . |
| 30 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |