Example sentences of "up [prep] the other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Three year rolling service agreements are to be drawn up for the other directors and senior employees as set out in Appendix II .
3 We can create particles made up of the other quarks ( strange , charmed , bottom , and top ) , but these all have a much greater mass and decay very rapidly into protons and neutrons .
4 ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me .
5 Away to the west towards Memo , Lieutenant D. St. A. Dexter , supported by Turton , blocked the enemy 's eastward push that had overrun Dutch positions , but with the difficult hill country between them and Mape , they were unlikely to link up with the other columns .
6 The BBC itself , via its Enterprises section , rescued the day by coming up with the other half of a total £450,000 budget .
7 The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half .
8 It is expected that the Home Office will come up with the other half of the sum .
9 A wounded horse limped in the wheat , trying to catch up with the other cavalry horses .
10 A young wildebeest is able to run almost as soon as it is born , for it must be able to keep up with the other wildebeest when they flee a predator .
11 Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise .
12 His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours .
13 Up to this point we had kept up with the other parties , but while they had tackled the step easily , we were left puzzled as to how they had done it .
14 The show is up in the other rooms .
15 uhum , could n't you go up in the other corner .
16 The other lamb 's getting tangled up in the other parts of that Russian vine 's gone over .
17 Mick spoke up from the other tent .
18 Howls of laughter went up from the other boys .
19 Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family .
20 The voice belonged to George , he had drawn up on the other side of the road , and as I walked towards him his voice was getting impatient .
21 The mood of Bank Holiday reflects that of a nation knowing that war must come , but other films dealt more directly with the storm clouds building up on the other side of the Channel .
22 His Dad had pulled up on the other side of the road .
23 Fearing that Greece and Turkey would end up on the other side of that iron curtain the American President Truman declared that their security was vital to the Western powers and began a substantial programme of aid .
24 He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers .
25 She was n't sure how she 'd got there : like someone who takes an electric shock from a kitchen implement and winds up on the other side of the room .
26 She curled up on the other side of the bed .
27 High up on the other side of the square is a sign on which words pass rapidly from right to left across a bank of lights .
28 He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack .
29 The only times he allowed Finlayson to get a clear view of him there was always another plane lined up on the other side .
30 But then the skull starts to grow in a strange , asymmetrical , twisted fashion , so that one eye , for instance the left , moves over the top of the head to finish up on the other side .
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