Example sentences of "up the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't understand , ’ she said , sinking back into her chair and gathering up the hastily discarded slice of bread . |
| 2 | She said nothing , but allowed him to assist her up the steeply rising earth bank . |
| 3 | It was Robert 's son , also a banker and MP , who in the early 1830s set about dressing up the newly named Bridehead , making a lake beside it and a complete ‘ model village ’ at Little Bredy . |
| 4 | He turned his head away and picked up the newly arrived cognac . |
| 5 | Its provisions included : enforcing a 20 percent reduction in Californian carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 , with a 40 percent reduction by 2010 ; protecting the earth 's ozone shield by speeding up the internationally agreed phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons and other damaging chemicals ; banning offshore drilling for oil in state waters ; saving the ancient redwood forests ; and requiring that a new tree be planted for every 500 square feet of development . |
| 6 | If students do not take up the publicly provided loans that are available for them , they are neglecting an important element of the student support system . |
| 7 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 8 | The ice and snow would disappear from the mountains , and as the new plants from the more temperate regions of the south migrated northwards , replacing the arctic plants , these latter would crawl up the now uncovered mountains , and likewise be driven northward to the present arctic shores . |