Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 2 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 3 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 4 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 5 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 6 | Yea , though I run down the valleys , I am Towed up the hills . |
| 7 | Thereafter , a physiological change may cause them to develop a preference for fresher water so they are lured up the rivers , just as spiny lobsters , at a particular time of the year , are drawn to lower temperatures . |
| 8 | Bull Worldwide Telco has been set up the ‘ better to co-ordinate Bull 's telco strategy and solutions , and to develop new group skills and expertise within the domain . ’ |
| 9 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 10 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 11 | This view shows the station still under construction and it will be seen that a temporary track has been laid up the ramp to Infirmary Road to enable materials to be offloaded . |
| 12 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 13 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 14 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 15 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
| 16 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 17 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 18 | Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening . |
| 19 | For the next couple of days , the Britannia will be anchored up the coast , where Prince Charles will work on a BBC film about the environment and talk to government radicals with whom it was considered impolitic for him to spend time during his official itinerary . |
| 20 | The wording referring to the specific location in the location description would by definition have to be drawn up the region , cos they would have intimate knowledge of the locality that er sorry and the costs would be drawn up by the region because they would know as I say intimately they would know that specific development |
| 21 | This space thus contains all the elements of the assembly and can be reflected up the hierarchical structure to a level at which assemblies are being considered . |
| 22 | As the plant grows the band can be slid up the canes or , as the plant grows wider , both canes and band removed and repositioned . |
| 23 | He felt as abject as a convalescent child and had to be helped up the three stone flights to his cell . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , she allowed herself to be helped up the high step and onto a bunk opposite the one on which Robbie was now lying … |
| 25 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 26 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
| 27 | ‘ I did not feel guilty about having to be kicked up the arse . |
| 28 | Thus the coarse grains will be driven up the slope DA and will come to rest in the lee of the crest , AB , past which they can not move because of the complete shelter here . |
| 29 | It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked . |
| 30 | The reader has to be led up the garden path . |